This weekend's values voter summit, serving as a front for Republican electoral activism but claiming to involve nonpartisan advocacy, had a lot of strange moments — and FaithfulDemocrats.com was there blogging about it to give you the scoop. Here are the top five bizarro world moments from the conference this weekend. (more…) Read more
A new movie on climate change features a major segment about the emerging voice of faith communities urging action on this issue. (more…) Read more
Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach to me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the costs; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for reward, except to know that I am doing your will. (more…) Read more
When confronted with a term like "moral values" (not defined in any precise way by the exit polls), most political observers immediately think of abortion and gay marriage — indeed, this impulse is only natural. The 2004 exit polls offer an interesting glance at voters' views of these issues nationwide. (more…) Read more
Last week, a friend gently reprimanded me for my last post, which included a prayer written in a sarcastic tone that "might have an unintended effect on conservative Christians for whom prayer is a fundamentally sacred part of daily life." (more…) Read more
We're doing this all wrong (more…) Read more
I pose this question as an experiment. I believe there must be at least ten different definitions as to "what is a Christian" (more…) Read more
In one month, an incredibly powerful movie will hit theatres nationwide: THE GREAT WARMING (TGW). (more…) Read more
With conservative groups gathering in Washington, D.C., for the first day of the 2006 Values Voters Summit, a refreshing reminder that Christian evangelicalism and the political right are not always synonymous. (more…) Read more
Just another man of Faith who is glad to send a hellooo and God bless to others of the same. I heard the big mucky-muck of Family Research Council critique us left leaning believers that we seem to have less cohesiveness than the Religious Right. YOU THINK! OOOPS! I think that is the ironic point. We think! We will argue (not destructively but maybe abrasively) nearly everything. Rote recitation is for the right while the left values reason and faith. ... Read more
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