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6\/29, 4:13p CT:<\/em> Religious conservatives applaud<\/a> the Supreme Court\u2019s just-ended session because of rulings on faith-based initiatives and issue advertising in election season.\u00a0 Unmentioned are the numerous rulings in favor of the big guy against the little guy \u2014 on labor discrimination, on school desegregation, on anti-trust, and more.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/29, 2:09p CT: <\/em>Pastor Dan tears apart<\/a> a Michael Gerson OP-ED pooh-poohing Barack Obama\u2019s great speech to the UCC.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/29, 1:20a CT: <\/em>A new study says climate change already is killing 77,000 people a year in Asia and the Pacific \u2014 and Jesse Lava says<\/a> the blood is on the Bush administration\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/28, 1:31p CT:<\/em> The Evangelical Covenant Church passes a resolution<\/a> promoting creation care.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/28, 1:26p CT: <\/em>Sean Hannity lies again<\/a> about Barack Obama\u2019s pastor, falsely calling him a black separatist.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/28, 12:11p CT: <\/em>More good stuff<\/a> from religious leaders: they\u2019re telling a Peruvian businessman to stop giving kids lead poisoning.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/27, 7:06p CT:<\/em> Religious leaders demand<\/a> an end to torture.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/27, 9:33a CT: <\/em>Darfur talks go nowhere<\/a>; the administration\u2019s lethargic at best and China supports the genocide because it gets oil from Sudan.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/26, 6:19p CT:<\/em> Elizabeth Edwards calls into Hardball<\/a> to confront Ann Coulter on her history or debasing the public dialogue with repugnant personal attacks.\u00a0 And here\u2019s the Coulter comment precipitating the call; she says she hopes Edwards dies<\/a> in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/26, 3:24p CT: <\/em>The Baptist Center for Ethics has a DVD coming out called \u201cGolden Rule Politics.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a preview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/26, 8:23a CT: <\/em>The Obama campaign is inviting people to \u201cfaith forums\u201d<\/a> in New Hampshire to discuss the proper role of faith and politics.\u00a0 Sounds pretty cool.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/25, 4:47p CT: <\/em>Baptists are launching<\/a> new services immigrants, and an Atlanta Journal-Constitution OP-ED gives a Christian basis<\/a> for pro-immigrant public policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/25, 4:42p CT: <\/em>Faith leaders push affordable housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/25, 10:35a CT: <\/em>Check out this amazing resource<\/a> developed by Faith in Public Life.\u00a0 It\u2019s a new online database that maps the thousands of progressive faith groups in America.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/25, 8:07a CT: <\/em>Democrats step it up<\/a> on Catholic outreach, says US News & World Report.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/24, 11:48p CT: <\/em>Here at FD, Elizabeth Austin is irked<\/a> at an Episcopal priest who converts to Islam and still wants to be a priest.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/23, 4:10p CT: <\/em>Barack Obama gives the keynote<\/a> to the United Church of Christ\u00a0general synod.\u00a0 More soon.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/22, 10:17a CT:<\/em> FD\u2019s Stan Moody is visiting<\/a> the Holocaust Museum in Israel.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/22, 9:23a CT: <\/em>Shane Claiborne, one of the country\u2019s best models for living a Christian life, just lost<\/a> all his possessions in a fire.\u00a0 His \u201cSimple Way\u201d community lost the building where they had an after-school program and micro-business, as well.\u00a0 There\u2019s an emergency relief fund, if you\u2019d like to help.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/21, 6:04p CT: <\/em>Obama\u2019s congregation is scrutinized<\/a> yet again.\u00a0 Does any other candidate, besides perhaps Mitt Romney, face a constant barrage of questions about his church?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/21, 1:14p CT: <\/em>Most New Orleans workers are victims of labor abuse, says<\/a> Interfaith Worker Justice.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/21, 12:13p CT: <\/em>President Bush yesterday: \u201cDestroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not ethical, and it is not the only option before us.\u201d<\/a> \u00a0 Is he expressing regret for a needless invasion of Iraq that has left hundreds of thousands of civilians dead?\u00a0 Nah: he\u2019s opposed to stem cell research.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/20, 5:34p CT: <\/em>We have an interesting debate<\/a> on Scripture and abortion in this thread here at FD; feel free to contribute!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/20, 5:33p CT: <\/em>Marcus Borg\u2019s compelling defense<\/a> of Christian just war doctrine \u2014 suggesting, of course, an end to the Iraq war.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/20, 5:24p CT: <\/em>Sam Brownback keeps talking the \u201cpro-the whole life\u201d<\/a> talk \u2014 which is a good start, but such a philosophy ultimately demands more than the trivial tinkering he proposes.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/19, 6:41p CT:<\/em> Pew finds more support<\/a> among religious Democrats for Hillary Clinton than for anyone else, but strangely fails to account for African-Americans, which doubtless hurts Obama.\u00a0 There\u2019s also no indication that Hillary\u2019s strength among the faithful is proportionately<\/em> stronger than among the rest of the primary electorate.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/19, 11:20a CT:\u00a0<\/em>Faith leaders press<\/a> automakers on pollution.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/18, 12:15p CT:<\/em> Tucker Carlson: \u201cI have never met anybody less sincere than the religious left.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Liberal media, indeed.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/18, 12:44a CT:<\/em> Jesse Lava takes<\/a> Gary Bauer to task for attacking a straw-man version of the \u201creligious left.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/16, 3:13a CT: <\/em>Obama, who grew up<\/a> without a father present, calls on dads to be \u201cmen,\u201d not \u201cboys.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/15, 2:40p CT: <\/em>61% of Americans say<\/a> they want a president who\u2019s religious; 28% say a candidate\u2019s specific religious affiliation affects their vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/15, 11:50a CT: <\/em>Northwest churches are creating<\/a> a \u201cGenesis Covenant\u201d to care for God\u2019s creation.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/15, 10:49a CT: <\/em>Tell Burger King that farmers deserve<\/a> fair wages.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/15, 9:22a CT: <\/em>Look at the book cover on this page<\/a>; if that\u2019s not idolatry, I don\u2019t know what is.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/14, 10:53p CT:<\/em> McCain smacks<\/a> Romney for having said he wouldn\u2019t seek to overturn Massachusetts abortion protections.\u00a0 But McCain himself once said<\/a> he wouldn\u2019t seek to overturn federal abortion protections.\u00a0 Apparently they\u2019re both flip-flopping opportunists.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/14, 10:47p CT: <\/em>Schiavo II<\/a> , with a twist.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/13, 3:19p CT: <\/em>Howard Dean urges <\/a>Democrats to keep reaching out to evangelicals.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/13, 3:14p CT:<\/em> Republican Mike Huckabee talks<\/a> the moral populist talk, though his policies are scarcely different than any other Republican\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/12, 5:02p CT: <\/em>Is the Vice President trying to lie<\/a> us into another unjust war?<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/12, 1:58p CT: <\/em>30% of Republicans and 57% of Democrats believe<\/a> in evolution.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/12, 1:42p CT: <\/em>Joel Hunter: \u201cThere is a really significant emerging constituency<\/a> of evangelicals who are not going to be pro-choice, but we are going to be broader about the issues we consider when we go to the polls.\u201d\u00a0 Speaking of which, Bread for the World organized<\/a> 700 Christians this weekend to talk about ending poverty.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/11, 11:30p CT: <\/em>The U.S. may be going easy<\/a> on Sudan because the current regime is marginally useful in gathering intelligence on potential terrorism.\u00a0 It\u2019s the Cold War all over again.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/11, 11:20p CT:<\/em> A \u201cgay bomb\u201d<\/a> to turn opposing soldiers into homosexuals?\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/11, 11:55a CT: <\/em>The Democrats are talking faith, while the Republicans have a religion problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/10, 2:46p CT:<\/em> Stan Moody on one of the wackier sermons<\/a> to come along in a while.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/9, 10:36a CT: <\/em>Jesse Lava isn\u2019t hearing back from a religious righty who called the Sojourners\u2019 presidential forum \u201ca sham, a fraud, and a travesty\u201d \u2014 so Jesse posted his questions here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/9, 10:32a CT: <\/em>Stan Moody on America\u2019s moral compass<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/8, 8:34p CT: <\/em>Erstwhile Bushie David Kuo says the partisan lines<\/a> are blurring on faith.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/8, 8:20p CT: <\/em>James Dobson endorses<\/a> sermon blaming lesbians for God\u2019s supposed abandonment of America \u2014 recalling Jerry Falwell\u2019s classic moment attributing<\/a> 9\/11 to gays and the ACLU, among other fiends.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/7, 6:32p CT: <\/em>Catholic groups call<\/a> on Bush to heed the Pope\u2019s anti-war message.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/7, 4:46p CT:<\/em> The Senate has rejected family values in the immigration bill; hear faith leaders<\/a> respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/6, 11:04a CT: <\/em>Gallup polls<\/a> \u201cmorality\u201d \u2014 asking numerous questions on sexuality and exactly zero questions on materialism, greed, poverty, and degrading the earth.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/6, 9:56a CT: <\/em>The religious right attacks<\/a> Sojourners\u2019 faith forum as \u201ca sham, a fraud, and a travesty\u201d because it didn\u2019t use abortion and gay rights as litmus test issues.\u00a0 An old story, from the old guard.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/5, 10:57p CT:<\/em> Jesse Lava defends<\/a> the growing discussion of faith in the public square.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/5, 3:17p CT: <\/em>Faith in Public Life has video clips<\/a> from last night\u2019s faith debate, and Faithfully Liberal recaps the segments of John Edwards<\/a>, Barack Obama<\/a>, and Hillary Clinton<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/5, 3:05p CT: <\/em>Stan Moody asks<\/a> whether it\u2019s time to strip the word \u201cmarriage\u201d from the civil code.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/5, 2:29a CT: <\/em>Jesse Lava breaks down<\/a> the groundbreaking faith forum that Obama, Edwards, and Clinton engaged in this evening.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/4, 8:01p CT: <\/em>Clinton, Edwards, and Obama looked great tonight, though in different ways, at the Sojourners forum on faith and politics.\u00a0 A post soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/4, 3:56p CT:<\/em> Be sure to tune into CNN tonight at 7p ET (6p CT) for a faith-centered forum<\/a> with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards.\u00a0 This is groundbreaking stuff; watch it!<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/4, 9:45a CT: <\/em>Jesse Lava pegs the moral moments<\/a> in last night\u2019s Democratic presidential debate.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/3, 9:08p CT: <\/em>John Edwards launches a \u201cmoral leadership\u201d<\/a> website of his own.\u00a0 It\u2019s not faith-based, though there\u2019s some good stuff there on poverty, Darfur, and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/2, 1:10a CT: <\/em>Barack Obama launches<\/a> a website<\/a> for people of faith.\u00a0 Some great people will be blogging there \u2014 Obery Hendricks, Sean Casey, Chuck Currie, and others.\u00a0 Check it out.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/1, 7:49p CT:<\/em> Barack Obama\u2019s campaign is going to do something very cool on faith tomorrow.\u00a0 More then.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n 6\/1, 11:37a CT: <\/em>AP covers the study showing that the news media overplays<\/a> religious conservatives.\u00a0 Focus on the Family, quoting Tony Perkins, predictably disputes<\/a> the findings, though without offering any counter-evidence.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c17-featured-writers"],"yoast_head":"\n