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July 2012

July 03, 2012
by Ebony A. UtleyR3 ContributorThe 2012 BET Awards were black people on their best behavior....
July 03, 2012
Is Barack Obama a Christian?This perennial question came to the fore recently after American President...
July 03, 2012
The 2012 campaign has placed evangelicals in a paradox. A recent PRRI/RNS poll reveals that...
July 03, 2012
The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, but the fight for healthcare is not...
July 03, 2012
When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops kicked off their “Fortnight for Freedom” campaign almost...
July 03, 2012
As candidates and campaigns reach out to people of faith, and religious organizations join the...
July 03, 2012
The Supreme Court's decision to leave President Obama's health care reform legislation mostly intact swings...

June 2012

June 27, 2012
By Rashad GroveR3 ContributorRevolutionary intellectual and feminist scholar Angela Davis once said, “Diversity means absolutely...
June 27, 2012
Molly Worthen’s NYT essay on the social cleavage between white and black evangelicals is a...
June 27, 2012
His silence about his faith notwithstanding, Mitt Romney will become the first Mormon to win...
June 27, 2012
After tackling the faiths of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, conservative Evangelical writer Stephen...
June 27, 2012
In a recent article written in Charisma, a popular magazine targeting Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians,...
June 27, 2012
Red State Religion: Faith and Politics in America’s Heartlandby Robert WuthnowPrinceton University Press, 2012Robert Wuthnow...
June 24, 2012
Minister Reggie White is from Detroit, Michigan and is completing his studies in the Master...
June 24, 2012
In its ongoing efforts to examine the intersections between rhetoric, race, and religion, Memphis Theological...
June 24, 2012
The tragic killing of Trayvon Martin has sparked world wide interest. We here at Rhetoric...
June 23, 2012
by Edward BlumR3 Contributor By drawing attention to the Time list of "influential" evangelicals and...
June 23, 2012
Given the undeniable impact of political affairs upon religious matters and of religion upon such...
June 23, 2012
by Stephen Angell and Leigh EasonRecent weeks have seen history-making collaborations among leaders of the...
June 23, 2012
by Lisa MillerAmericans believe there’s too much religion talk in the public sphere, and these...
June 21, 2012
During the 1990s, I worked for a parachurch nonprofit called Evangelicals for Social Action. We...
June 20, 2012
Four years after America elected its first African-American president, America's largest Protestant religious body elected...
June 20, 2012
I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have...
June 20, 2012
by Stanley HauerwasI am a Christian. I am even a Christian theologian. I observe in...
June 20, 2012
When I was growing up in the fifties and sixties, almost no one in politics...
June 20, 2012
Mitt Romney is coy about his running mate. He’ll only speak about the topic in...
June 19, 2012
by Ebony UtleyR3 ContributorJuneteenth is a holiday that commemorates June 19, 1865, the date the...
June 18, 2012
Darlene R. Kelley is nearing completion of her Master of Divinity at North Park Theological...
June 17, 2012
Is religious freedom suddenly under attack in America? That's what the nation's Roman Catholic bishops...
June 17, 2012
The latest Pew Research Center American Values study finds that the United States continues to...
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