Religion played a huge role in Mike Huckabee's triumph in the Iowa Republican caucuses, though there are some mixed signals for him on the road ahead. On the Democratic side, it was fresh blood — and an outcry for change — that helped propel Barack Obama to his victory in the state.
Evangelical Christians in the U.S. have helped convince dozens of Iranian Jews to move to Israel in recent months, offering cash incentives and claiming that Iran's tiny Jewish community is in grave danger.
Although I support gay marriage, I think that liberals should welcome Obama's success in causing so much consternation on the right. On balance, inviting Warren opens more doors than it closes.
Gay rights groups are angry that President-elect Obama has invited Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, and I can't blame them. Warren has compared homosexuality to pedophilia and said gay marriage endangers freedom of speech, both of which are absurd.
But Obama told reporters in Chicago that America needs to "come together," even when there's disagreement on social issues. "That dialogue is part of what my campaign is all about," he said.
An outspoken and polarizing voice in conservative Christian politics resigned effective Thursday from the National Association of Evangelicals after a radio interview in which he voiced support for same-sex civil unions and said he is "shifting" on gay marriage.
This is a wonderful and thought-provoking column exploring what it means to be religious, and how that plays into ones political decisions. The writer presents a list of "faith priorities" for choosing a candidiate which may surprise some readers.
The editors of Christian Century have some reservations about the forum hosted by Pastor Rick Warren at Saddleback Church last month. Affirming the separation of church and state, Warren said it was wrong to separate faith from politics. Christian Century said,
It's graduation season. Time for long-suffering college students across the nation to gather, grab their diplomas and walk across an annually created stage into the reality of post-collegiate life.
Since 2006, John McCain has been transforming himself into a candidate that is more palatable to Evangelical Christians. He even made peace with Jerry Falwell prior to his death.
A Disturbing and powerful documentary that follows the path to the worlds supposed ending 'Armageddon' via 'End Timers' Evangelical Christians in the USA.
BlaiseP has this really good article here that adds a very good perspective to this whole Reverend Wright issue. My own one interest in this Wright issue (I have ignored all other race issues of this campaign) is the double standard.
Huckabee diehards and contemporaneous others with high quotients of unrequited Christian zeal are threatening to start a third political party, having nigh given up on the Donkey and Elephant as incorrigibly godless.
Mike Huckabee has won the Iowa Republican caucuses, beating rival Mitt Romney with strong support from Christian Evangelicals.
From this MSNBC poll results page for the Iowa primary we know that 60% of the Republican voters were evangelical or born-again Christians, and 46 percent of them voted for Huckabee. He received only 14% of the votes from the other 40% of the Republicans who participated.
UPDATE; I no longer believe Huck is a good guy. I believe he is a devious opportunist who is very dangerous and needs to be out of the race. I hope the country has the sense to keep him down. SC, I fear you! :P
Evangelical Christians never had it so good, but they seem not to know it. Instead of supporting the candidate who most shares their values -- Mitt Romney -- they seem hell-bent for the proverbial cliff.
An evangelical christian TV station in the Netherlands has been censoring Sir David Attenborough.
A recent poll found that 59 percent of American evangelicals believe Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Texas will almost certainly hit the grim total of 400 executions this month, far ahead of any other state, testament to the influence of the state's conservative evangelical Christians and its cultural mix of Old South and Wild West. "In Texas you have all the elements lined up.
Query: Can an atheist or agnostic commentator discuss any aspect of religion for more than thirty seconds without referring to religious people as imbeciles, extremists, mental deficients, fascists, enemies of the common good, crypto-Nazis, conjure men, irrationalists, pedophiles …
Anti-abortion campaigners in the US will tell you their crusade is about the sanctity of life.
Born-again virginity has been debunked by research, but serious proponents of it -- from mature single women to evangelicals -- continue embrace the chastity pledge, for strikingly different reasons.
A major U.S. association of evangelical Christians has condemned torture by the U.S. military and reaffirmed its commitment to environmental activism, positions that highlight broader splits in a movement associated with conservative causes.
American evangelicals say they will determine the next president. A new HBO documentary by Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Speaker Pelosi, examines the power of faith, politics, and those considered "Friends of God".
Evangelical Christians gravitate toward clear divisions, even stark polarities: saved-unsaved, heaven-hell, right-wrong, good-evil, God-Satan. Just keep things nice and simple. Either you're for us or against us. Homosexuality, abortion and terrorists are bad – period.
WASHINGTON - As the results of the midterm elections sank in this week, religious leaders across the ideological spectrum found something they could agree on: The "God gap" in American politics has narrowed substantially.