Hitchens: “I cannot wait to see Obama and Biden explain how this isn’t the case or how it’s much worse than, and quite different from, Obama’s own raving and ranting pastor in Chicago or Biden’s lifelong allegiance to the most anti-“choice” church on the planet.”
Chrisopher Hitchens: Don’t Patronize Palin (Salon.com) Read More »
This year, the candidates’ religious leaders and their own beliefs are getting a lot of attention. Here is a round-up of some of the videos that have made news in recent months.
VIDEOS: Obama’s, McCain’s and Palin’s Pastor Problems Read More »
In this hour-long documentary, produced for Italy’s RomeReports News Agency, Chinese men and women speak candidly of their experiences as religious believers, and their assessment of what the future may hold for them. The film presents interviews with representatives of both official and underground religions, shows priests and seminarians practicing their faith in secret, and offers a rare glimpse into China’s Muslim community.
VIDEO: God in China – The Struggle for Religious Freedom Read More »
But modern American evangelicals are among the last people who’d judge her harshly. It is the left that is about to go crazy with Puritan judgments; it is the right that is about to show what mellow looks like. Religious conservatives know something’s wrong with us, that man’s a mess. They are not left dazed by the latest applications of this fact. “This just in – there’s a lot of sinning going on out there” is not a headline they’d understand to be news.
Evangelical Christians and Sarah Palin – Excerpt from Peggy Noonan’s Column (WSJ) Read More »
A few months ago BeliefNet interviewed John McCain and asked him what religion he thought the President should be. The Republican presidential candidate told Beliefnet he’s uncomfortable with a Muslim president but felt Mitt Romney’s Mormonism is a non-issue. Any religion is okay, according to McCain, so long as this candidate “will carry on the Judeo-Christian tradition that has made this country great.”
VIDEO: John McCain on What the President’s Religion Should Be (BeliefNet) Read More »
In the last couple of days, I have wondered what it would take for John McCain to get the evangelical vote, particularly when Dr. James Dobson had previously said that he could not vote for him. Well, apparently the selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin worked some magic for the good doctor and he said “But I can tell you that if I had to go into the studio, I mean the voting booth today, I would pull that lever.”
VEEPSTAKES WINNER: It worked – Dobson says he would “pull lever” for McCain-Palin Read More »
With Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty apparently out of the running for McCain’s VP pick, speculation this morning turns to Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska.
VEEPSTAKES: Will Alaska Governor Sarah Palin bring in Conservative Votes for McCain? Read More »
Although McCain has won the GOP nomination, some evangelical leaders such as James Dobson have expressed that they will not vote for him because he is too “liberal.” Can Pawlenty, a dedicated evangelical Christian, bridge this gap?
VEEPSTAKES: Could Tim Pawlenty Bring 30 Million Evangelicals Back to the GOP? Read More »
Author and professor R. Gustav Niebuhr argues that tolerating people of different faiths is not enough; that in order to live in a safe and cohesive society, we must go out and interact with them.
VIDEO: R. Gustav Niebuhr: “The False Promises of Tolerance” (Chataqua Institution) Read More »
A collection of news stories about faith at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver.
“Faithiness” Artifacts from the 2008 Democratic Convention Read More »
