Richard Hughes

Obese Man Who Hadn't Moved From Recliner In Two Years Dies

AP | Posted 05.31.2011

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BELLAIRE, Ohio -- Media reports say a morbidly obese man who hadn't moved from his recliner in two years and had to be cut out of his Ohio home when h...

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Glenn Beck's Christian America is Hardly Christian

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Glenn Beck advised Christians to "run as fast as you can" from churches that preach "social and economic justice," he told us a lot. Whatever Beck's "Christian America" may be, it is hardly Christian.

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Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good (Part I)

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard T. Hughes

Why do so many evangelical and fundamentalist Christians so often disregard two requirements that are central to the bible and to the teachings of Jesus: peacemaking and justice for the poor?

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America Is Not a Christian Nation and Evangelicals Are Not Hard Right

Randall Balmer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nothing demonstrates the internal diversity of evangelicalism in America better than an important new book by Richard T. Hughes, "Christian America and the Kingdom of God."

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