Frances Coleman
Frances Coleman is an author at Religion News Service.
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COMMENTARY: Breaking up is hard to do
By Frances Coleman — June 3, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) After a 25-year love affair between religion and politics, who would’ve thought it would come to this? In Election 2008, to the surprise of many pundits, religious leaders and politicians appear to be going their separate ways. Frankly, it’s about time. America has too many brands of spiritual beliefs […]
COMMENTARY: Breaking Up Is the Right Thing to Do
By Frances Coleman — November 18, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In the wake of the midterm elections, here’s one American who’s ready for a divorce. Not for myself, but for the modern-day alliance between politics and religion. As with a couple who never belonged together in the first place, it’s past time these two separated. It’s hard to pinpoint […]
COMMENTARY: Time to Stop Quoting Pat Robertson
By Frances Coleman — January 12, 2006
c. 2006 Religion News Service (UNDATED) If Pat Robertson were a doctor, we could strip him of his medical license. If he were a lawyer, we could disbar him. But what do you do with a “televangelist” who is given to declaring God’s will for political leaders, resort communities and, indeed, entire nations? Is there […]
COMMENTARY: The Ultimate Lesson in the Schiavo Case
By Frances Coleman — March 31, 2005
c. 2005 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Nobody’s perfect, and nobody knows what he’d do under certain circumstances until he’s actually in those circumstances. Which is why it’s hard to fault Terri Schiavo’s husband or her parents and siblings, all of whom have insisted that they wanted only what was best for her. True, Michael Schiavo […]
COMMENTARY: Church Leaders Should Butt Out of the Ballot Box
By Frances Coleman — October 28, 2004
c. 2004 Religion News Service (Frances Coleman is editorial page editor of the Mobile (Ala.) Register.) (UNDATED) I am a lifelong Roman Catholic and proud of it. I love my church. But I have a message for some of the men who are running its American branch these days: Cut it out, guys. You heard […]
COMMENTARY: Antigay bashing: In whose name did they attack a murdered gay man?
By Frances Coleman — January 1, 1998
c. 1998 Religion News Service (Frances Coleman is editorial page editor for the Mobile (Ala.) Register.) UNDATED _ I have not been slapped off a horse lately while on the road to Damascus. Nor have I gone into a trance, heard voices or even seen any ghostly handwriting on the wall. But I have had […]
COMMENTARY: The real and the fake in `Christian Values’
By Frances Coleman — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Frances Coleman is editorial page editor for the Mobile (Ala.) Register.) UNDATED _ In a nation pervaded by political expressions of religious fervor, one man gives fresh meaning to the expression “Christian values.” His name is Richard Coss. An ex-convict, Coss says God changed his life while he was “a […]
COMMENTARY: NOW hates Promise Keepers because NOW doesn’t keep its promises
By Frances Coleman — January 1, 1997
c. 1997 Religion News Service (Frances Coleman is editorial page editor for the Mobile (Ala.) Register.) UNDATED _ Warning: A “stealth political group” is prepared to descend on Washington. That’s what the president of the National Organization for Women calls the Christian men’s group known as Promise Keepers. NOW would have you believe it hates […]
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