Religion and Politics

McChurch Swinging to Center

2008-03-12T21:17:00.001-04:00

Scholar Foresees Major Shift to Evangelical Center The evangelical center is attracting more people and emerging as an influential voice of faith witness in American politics, contends an evangelical scholar in his new book. Wed, Mar. 12, 2008 Posted: 09:01:22 AM EST WASHINGTON – The evangelical center is attracting more people and emerging as an influential voice of faith witness in

God Now a Democrat? Party Switcher!

2008-03-11T20:13:00.001-04:00

Author sees “God Strategy” at work in U.S. politics March 11th, 2008, filed by Ed Stoddard DALLAS - In America, church and state may be separate but the distinction between religion and politics has become increasingly blurred over the past couple of decades. In the just published book “The God Strategy: How Religion Became A Political Weapon In America,” authors David Domke and Kevin Coe

Will the Last Theocrat Please Stand!

2008-03-10T20:02:00.001-04:00

Role of religion in politics debated Friday, Mar 07, 2008 - 07:59 AM BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO Times-Dispatch Staff Writer God knows, religion has found its way into the 2008 presidential race. In a debate last night on religion in politics and government, a scholar, two activists and a cleric said competing views of faith are coloring the campaign to succeed President Bush, who is among

Obama and Hope for Palestine

2008-03-04T10:01:00.003-05:00

March 10, 2008 IssueCopyright © 2007 The American Conservative Obama’s Israel Test Is the lobby losing its grip? by Scott McConnell Laying the groundwork for a bold presidential bid, the young Democratic senator set up a meeting with a key leader of the Jewish community. He had won substantial Jewish support in his home state, but as a first termer, he was not yet well known nationally.

2008-03-04T10:00:00.001-05:00

Selling God to the Voters

2008-01-28T19:58:00.000-05:00

newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vprel275552697jan27,0,3837833.story Newsday.com Editorial: God on the American campaign trail January 27, 2008 The intensity of God-talk is already off the charts in this presidential campaign. We could all use some sensible restraint and some reflection on the history of the church-state debate, dating back to the nation's earliest days.So far in this cycle,

Religion Covers a Multitude of Sins

2008-01-01T13:27:00.000-05:00

No holy war in the heartland UNION-TRIBUNE December 19, 2007 As pundits try to explain a couple of happenings in Iowa – Mike Huckabee's surge in popularity and a drop in support for Mitt Romney – some are force-feeding us a simple explanation: It's a God thing. If you watch the Sunday morning talk shows or read the weekly newsmagazines, there is a religious war

IRS Tightens Down on McChurch

2007-12-26T11:57:00.000-05:00

Megachurch Probe Challenges All Church Ministries Larry L. McSwain12-12-07 Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) dropped a bomb on a small segment of the church world in the United States on Nov. 6. But it has the potential of creating shock waves that may have long-term effects for many congregations in church-state relations, financial accountability and understanding of clergy income and

Republicans Attempt to Out-God Each Other

2007-12-12T20:07:00.000-05:00

Sponsored By placeAd2('printthis','88x31',false,''); A New American Holy War By Jon Meacham NEWSWEEK Updated: 4:59 PM ET Dec 8, 2007 The speech was written, the stagecraft set. Last Wednesday evening, about 12 hours before he was to speak on faith and public life as the guest of George H.W. Bush in College Station, Texas, Mitt Romney was musing aloud about the task

Supporting the Troops?

2007-12-06T12:30:00.000-05:00

Support the Troops? Why and How? By: Stan Moody This Administration has skillfully juxtaposed the War in Iraq with military gallantry. It is a chapter out of the “Fecal Veneer Theory,” where the coating of manure that encases this dubious war is made beautiful to the eye and the heart, obscuring its origins and its reality. It is national denial taken to an art form. Yellow

Jesus Loses Governor's Race in Mississippi

2007-11-16T10:33:00.000-05:00

Evangelical Democrat Stirs the Pot in Miss. By Peter WhoriskeyWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, November 5, 2007; A03 JACKSON, Miss. -- A wealthy evangelical Christian, John Arthur Eaves Jr., is running a campaign for governor that is rife with what Jesus might do. He talks about banishing "the money changers" from state politics and about a health-care proposal focusing on the "least among

2007-11-13T19:05:00.000-05:00

Could Hillary win the religious vote? November 13, 2007 Despite her genuine Methodist upbringing and honest-to-God faith credentials, the skepticism toward her among believers is deep and enduring. Her best hope among values voters: That they stay home on Election Day. By Paul

McChurch - "Let's Make Jesus Our King!

2007-10-23T13:31:00.003-04:00

Evangelicals give Giuliani a reality check By Wayne Slater - Dallas Morning NewsMonday, October 22, 2007 - Web LinkSend this news item to a FriendSign-up for Daily News Updates Oct 21, 2007 WASHINGTON – Religious conservatives served notice Saturday that Rudy Giuliani is not their candidate and began winnowing the field in search of a presidential hopeful they can rally around. Former

McChurch - "Let's Make Jesus Our King!

2007-10-23T13:31:00.001-04:00

Democrats Courting McChurch

2007-10-21T20:08:00.000-04:00

Obama to Throw Star-Powered Gospel Music Concerts Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is pulling out all the stops in his effort to appeal to religious voters, uniting top Gospel artists later this month for a weekend concert series on his campaign trail. Thu, Oct. 18, 2007 Posted: 11:06:25 AM EST Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is pulling out all the stops in

McChurch - Rupture or Rapture?

2007-10-05T09:43:00.003-04:00

October 2, 2007Starting Gate: Rupture On The Right?(CBS/AP) You don’t hear all the much buzz about third party presidential candidates these days. New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has said he will not run but continues to say things and travel places that make everyone

McChurch - Rupture or Rapture?

2007-10-05T09:43:00.001-04:00

McChurch - Leaving Their Brains at the Church Door And Their Hearts in the Pew

2007-10-04T19:34:00.000-04:00

Christian right is split over GOP fieldConservative evangelicals haven't found a perfect fit among the Republican presidential candidates — and that could benefit social liberal Giuliani.By Michael FinneganLos Angeles Times Staff WriterOctober 1, 2007WASHINGTON — Barely three months before the voting for a new president begins, the religious right has yet to unite behind a Republican

McChurch - Values Voters Have Scheduling Conflicts

2007-09-27T10:54:00.001-04:00

What's wrong with the religious right? By: W. James Antle III September 24, 2007 01:51 PM EST Did you miss last week’s Values Voter Debate? Don’t worry. So did Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and John McCain — the four leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination. In their place was businessman John Cox, a White House hopeful so minor he has not been invited to

McChurch Exposes the "Plot"

2007-09-26T11:48:00.000-04:00

Was Jesus a segregationist?Published 9/20/2007 Jesus and Little Rock Central High School made me a moderate.The tortured history of white Christianity and the civil rights movement captured my imagination when I first became a student at Central in 1990, and provided the most important revelation of my budding political development — Conservative Christians sometimes came out (gasp!) wrong

McChurch - Throwing Out the Gospels

2007-09-19T14:04:00.001-04:00

Dear Hanna, Let me challenge one point. You define evangelicals as "that elite subgroup that goes to church at least once a week." That may be true, but I don't think that classifies as an elite subgroup. Virtually all surveys show that 30 percent to 40 percent of Americans go to

The War on Dissent

2007-09-17T21:02:00.000-04:00

September 17, 2007Erwin Chemerinsky and the Post-9/11 Attack on Academic Freedom By MARJORIE COHN One week after the renowned legal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky was offered the position of dean of the new law school at the University of California at Irvine, Chancellor Michael Drake withdrew the offer, informing Duke Law Professor Chemerinsky he had proved to be "too politically controversial."

McChurch - WWJD Instead of WWJHUS (What would Jesus have us do?)

2007-09-11T13:52:00.000-04:00

CBN News Senior National Correspondent David Brody Video: Obama's Faith Based Team Explores the Question:

McChurch - Courted by the Religious Left

2007-08-28T09:03:00.000-04:00

Religion shaping race & defining Prez candidates BY MICHAEL SAULDAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Sunday, August 26th 2007, 4:00 AM A crowd cheered fervently in Iowa this month as Republican presidential candidate Sam Brownback quoted Mother Teresa telling him, "All for Jesus. All for

McChurch and its Praying President

2007-08-27T13:54:00.000-04:00

We Need An American PresidentBy Chuck BaldwinAugust 24, 2007This column is archived athttp://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20070824.htmlI just finished reading my current copy of The Times Examiner newspaper, which is published by my good friend Bob Dill in Greenville, South Carolina. This is an excellent independent paper that I can heartily recommend to myreaders, by the way. I