Speaking of Faith's Krista Tippett engages three generations of Evangelical leaders on the issue of faith and political action This past April Speaking of Faith host Kirsta Tippett sat down…
On May 7, 2008 a group of Evangelical leaders released a manifesto designed to help define and reform Evangelicalism in the United States. http://www.evangelicalmanifesto.org/ The composers and charter signatories include…
Across the nation ballot propositions involving the rights of same-sex couples were decided on Election Day. In California Proposition 8 passed and aims to institute a constitutional amendment to ban…
The presidential campaigns of 2008 were colored with episodes that may have made American Muslims wince. A woman at a McCain rally stuttered that the feared Obama was a secret…
The mainstream media has been under a microscope as it covers this year's election, but one thing is certain, the mainstream media is waking up to fact that Evangelicals are…
When the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) opens tomorrow (June 20) in San Jose, CA they will again address the issue of gay and lesbian clergy. Currently the…
As a movement with roots going back to the eighteenth century, Methodism is hardly a new phenomenon on the religious and political scenes, but this year Methodists are playing a…
Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church in Tipp City, OH is not experiencing a renaissance, nor is it discovering missions work or volunteering. It is, to paraphrase its pastor, Rev. Mike Slaughter,…
I joke with my wife that during my youth and college days I kept moving so far to the right that I woke up one day on the left. I'm…
But Lord, I was only exercising my constitutional rights. I'm surprised by how little attention a recent event has gotten in the American press. It seems that the Florida "pastor"…