USAID, Christ and Liberty

November 29, 2005
William Fisher, who has worked on economic programs in developing nations for the U.S. State Department and the U.S....

Under Attack

November 21, 2005
According to a survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League, “American Attitudes Toward Religion in the Public Square,” nearly two-thirds...

God Still Doesn't Like Commies

November 17, 2005
In the breath before the rush to denounce former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, for his courtroom statements that a)...

Newdow Files Again

November 14, 2005
Michael Newdow files again, this time taking aim at the “In God We Trust” motto on U.S. currency. Newdow...

Partisan Peace

November 7, 2005
Last fall, when church-state watchdog groups warned politically-active churches that overt campaigning for one candidate or another might cost...
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Everything But the Girl

November 7, 2005
“I wish I could vote so bad.” By Marissa Kantor On November 8th, in one of the fiercest faith-based...

Mao's Latest Bow

November 4, 2005
Between politics and religious ecstasy: Maoist believers in Nepal. Brad Tytel As China’s quasi-communist leadership continues to shed any...

Cast the First Vote

October 28, 2005
A Christian think tank in Bangor, Maine is mobilizing to oppose a November ballot question that could reverse the...

Rice Hosts Assorted Epithets

October 27, 2005
A somewhat baffling news story, about Condeleeza Rice’s recent hosting of Muslim community leaders for a fast-breaking Iftaar dinner...

Wrath, Etc.

October 26, 2005
Generally speaking, U.S. politicians’ and religio-rock stars’ explanations for God’s periodic, environmental fits of wrath are predictable: gay sex,...

Steele Hates Westboro

October 25, 2005
Republican Indiana State Senator Brent Steele said he intends to propose legislation in response to the antics of the...

Atheist Lobbyist

October 25, 2005
Atheists get a lobbyist too, in the form of Lori Lipman Brown, former Nevada state senator and the new...

Conservatism, Born Again

October 20, 2005
Can conservatism — or at least Bush’s variety of it — be born again? Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal...

The H-Word

October 17, 2005
Interfaith offense was given this week in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, after Republican nominee, Jerry W. Kilgore, launched a new...

Design Schism

September 30, 2005
Jason Carter: Although the irony is difficult to miss, The Los Angeles Times’ Josh Getlin dutifully points out that...

Narrative Gerrymandering

September 19, 2005
Tony Perkins of the Christian conservative Family Research Council targets NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg — usually of little concern...

Onward, Penguin Soldiers

September 14, 2005
Sharlet: On the one hand, there’s something thuggish about attempts by some religious conservative media bigs to press penguins...

His Dark Widow's Peak

September 11, 2005
Moktada al-Sadr‘s “beard reaches up his cheeks and a dark widow’s peak points down from beneath his own black...

This Should Have Been News

September 10, 2005
A leader of the nation’s largest evangelical organization sharply chastises Bush for his failure to act in a crisis...

Church Instead-Of-State

September 8, 2005
The Family Research Council — heir to the Christian Coalition as Washington’s most effective Christian Right political organization —...

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