God (Or The Gods) And Politics
God is no stranger to the culture wars of the past three decades but now the more politically shaped Gods take on a new presence in our public life.
God is no stranger to the culture wars of the past three decades but now the more politically shaped Gods take on a new presence in our public life.
Neil J. Young | Posted 01.28.2012
Not since John F. Kennedy ran for president has a candidate for the White House faced such stiff and persistent difficulties stemming from his faith. Yet again, white evangelicals may provide the critical vote.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 12.10.2011
WASHINGTON -- A reckless, selfish mob is on the loose in southern Manhattan, its values out of step with ordinary Americans and cleaved from the princ...
Rev. Jennifer Butler | Posted 06.13.2011
Conventional wisdom about faith and politics usually (and falsely) divides "values voters" opposed to abortion and gay marriage from those focused on kitchen-table issues like jobs and taxes.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011
My Christian brothers and fellow social conservatives failed by adopting a narrow definition of values that centered almost exclusively on opposition to gay marriage and abortion to the exclusion of virtually everything else.
Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
The "Christian America" vision pushed by the Christian Right stands in stark contrast with the biblical vision of the kingdom of God.
Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011
There was very little values narrative in this election. And there was almost no attention to the faith community and its concerns. But the issues we face now are profoundly moral questions. We have work to do.
Eric Sapp | Posted 05.25.2011
It's politics 101. If you don't spend time talking to a group of voters, engaging them, or showing them they matter, you tend to struggle with them on election day.
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
The religious right offered a hesitant embrace of the Republican Party's new "Pledge to America," with several groups saying they are happy the GOP in...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A straw vote suggests that social conservatives favor Indiana Rep. Mike Pence to head a Republican presidential ticket with former Alas...
Religion News Service | By Adelle M. Banks | Posted 05.25.2011
By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) With its emphasis on lower taxes and smaller government, the "tea party" movement hasn't sp...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011
Thousands of conservatives will be coming to Washington, D.C. this week for one of the biggest religious right conferences of the year: the annual Val...
Waymon Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011
The same people that have claimed that we are somehow weakening their marriages by simply being together are actively seeking to strip my husband and I of any rights or recognition our marriage provides us.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
Opponents of the soon to be enacted gay marriage law see themselves as fighting a rising tide of rights, following Mexico City's legalization of early abortions in 2007.
David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011
Who made Carrie Prejean and Mike Huckabee the experts on values? What can Sen. Jim DeMint, Bill O'Reilly or Rep. Michele Bachmann teach me on the subject?
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011
There are tens of millions of conservative Christian evangelicals who read, watch, or hear crazy messages on a weekly basis. Stop laughing and start organizing.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
Fresh from his Emmy win, Jon Stewart took the stage Tuesday night to take on some odd events and speeches from the Values Voters Summit, a gathering s...
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011
Many of the ideas in the Political Right ignore about 50 years of social science -- but not in their book. Or on the TV they watch. Or the radio they listen to. Or the magazines they read.
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011
While liberals and leftists keep laughing at them, the Christian Right will be busy trying to craft a last laugh -- and their track record is nothing to sneer at.
Scott Swenson | Posted 11.17.2011
Social conservatives have a simple choice to make. They can recognize the US as a pluralistic nation with diverse beliefs and work with people they disagree with, or marginalize themselves.
Chris Korzen | Posted 05.25.2011
Catholics account for 1 in 4 voters nationwide and have sided with the popular vote winner in the last nine presidential elections.
Robyn Blumner | Posted 05.25.2011
The life prospects of a teenage couple with a child and only high school degrees have collapsed in this modern economy.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 05.25.2011
Why is the young brilliant upstart Obama only ahead by single digits. At least part of the reason is this: John McCain knows how to control his message.
Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011
Hagee-style American Christians push to prepare the ground for the second coming of Jesus Christ, a plan that focuses on advancing Israeli interests and that exerts increasing influence on U.S. foreign policy.
The New York Times | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011
AFTER the 2004 elections, religious conservatives were riding high. Newly anointed by pundits as "values voters" -- a more flattering label than "reli...
Wade Clark Roof | Posted 04.23.2012