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Columbia University historian (and FD blogger) Randall Balmer recently canvassed eight conservative Christian groups for their official positions on torture. Two responded. He asks: whose life are we "pro"? (more…) Read more
Columbia University historian (and FD blogger) Randall Balmer recently canvassed eight conservative Christian groups for their official positions on torture. Two responded. He asks: whose life are we "pro"? (more…) Read more
Michael Kinsley is the kind of writer who not only makes the rest of us look bad, but makes us seriously considering switching to another profession and leaving the floor to him. In today's column, he asks why Bush seems to have one standard of life when it comes to stem cells and another when it comes to Iraqi civilians. (more…) Read more
I thought you'd like to know exactly who sold the soul of America in the name of "security." (more…) Read more
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Faithful Democrats are on the correct side of the torture and detention debate. However, I fear we will be on the wrong side of the surveillance debate. Let me explain. As a white person, I confess to finding recent uproar by my white sisters and brothers over government surveillance rather embarrassing. (more…) Read more
Well, it's all over but the shouting…and screaming and pleas for mercy in Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, and–yes–English from 'enemy combatants' being tortured. (more…) Read more
If you’re looking for Democratic religious outreach success stories, one of the first places you should start is Michigan. Like many Democrats after the 2004 elections, the Michigan Democratic Party (MDP) realized that Democrats needed to change the way we were speaking and relating to the faith community. And they decided to make a priority of doing just that. Over a year ago, the state party chair and other leading Michigan Democrats began holding small off-the-record listening meetings with... Read more
Former Senator Danforth is right. It is high time the Republicans unaligned themselves from the likes of Dobson, Ralph Reed or Tony Perkins. They need to have an honest look at the value to addressing issues of poverty, war, and equality. (more…) Read more
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