Opinion
New Yorker Evangelicals
By Mark Silk — June 28, 2008
Unfortunately, the powers that be at the New Yorker have not seen fit to put Frances Fitzgerald’s Annals of Religion piece up on the web–the latest effort to answer the question: Is the old religious right giving way to a new, broader, more moderate engaged evangelicalism? Fitzgerald, who’s been on the beat off and on […]
Burke to Rome, pronto
By Mark Silk — June 27, 2008
The appointment of St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke to head the Vatican’s highest court, effective at 5 p.m. today, has prompted the following assessment from Thomas Reese, S.J. of Georgetown University’s Woodstock Center (via a press release emailed around by Fr. Reese himself): “The appointment should make pro-choice Catholic politicians very nervous,” said Reese. “He […]
Time Poll Sez
By Mark Silk — June 27, 2008
More bad karma for McCain: Despite all the drama over Obama’s church and his former pastor’s inflammatory remarks, 40% said they felt he was more comfortable talking about his religious beliefs versus 34% for McCain. And in evidence that McCain has some work to do shoring up social conservative voters, when asked which of the […]
Obama and the Evangelicals
By Mark Silk — June 27, 2008
Brother Greenfield explains. But there’s starting to be a little evidence that O may be making some actual inroads.
Guns and Bitter
By Mark Silk — June 27, 2008
After yesterday’s Supreme Court decision determining that the Second Amendment guarantees individuals the right to bear arms, John McCain seized on the moment to, ah, reference Barack Obama’s notorious remark about economically pressed white folks bitterly clinging to guns and religion: Unlike Senator Obama, who refused to join me in signing a bipartisan amicus brief, […]
COMMENTARY: Troubles in the village
By Tracy Gordon — June 27, 2008
By now everybody has heard the sad tale about the pregnant teens of Gloucester, Mass. In a high school that usually records four pregnancies annually, this year they’ve already recorded 17. At least half of the girls reportedly made a pact to get pregnant and set out to find a sexual encounter to make this […]
COMMENTARY: Troubles in the village
By Dick Staub — June 27, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) By now, everybody has probably heard the sad tale about the pregnant teens of Gloucester, Mass. In a high school that usually records four pregnancies annually, this year they’ve already recorded 17. None of the expectant mothers is older than 16. At least half of the girls, described as […]
McCain Marriage Politics
By Mark Silk — June 26, 2008
Brody has learned that John McCain has decided to put his straight shoulder to the wheel for the California ballot initiative that would disallow same-sex marriage in that state. Yesterday he issued a statement to that effect, saying, “I support the efforts of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution between […]
Oh Joe
By Mark Silk — June 26, 2008
David Kurtz thinks Joe Lieberman played the Wright card in an audio interview with ABC’s Jake Tapper. Yeah, there was the more-in-sadness-than-in-anger schtick that Lieberman connoisseurs have come to treasure. But Tapper invited it and so the onus fell on him to follow up with a little Hagee. Such as why Joe’s man McCain decided […]
F&M Poll
By Mark Silk — June 26, 2008
And now, a word of more than passing interest from today’s Franklin and Marshall national survey. Those identified as “born again or fundamentalist” favor McCain over Obama by only 41 percent to 33 percent, with eight percent backing other candidates and 18 percent in the “don’t know” category. That presumably includes African Americans but even […]
Word!
By Mark Silk — June 26, 2008
Fr. Pfleger sticks by the substance of his remarks from Tinity UCC’s pulpit, as opposed to the manner of delivery. Did Hillary Clinton feel entitled to the Democratic presidential nomination. It’s hard not to think so. Does this express a more general feeling among whites that we’re entitled to be at the front of the […]
