Opinion
Miracle Guy
By Mark Silk — February 24, 2008
Seeing the Huckabee clip from yesterday’s SNL put me in mind of the name of the show’s original cast.
South Texas
By Mark Silk — February 24, 2008
If Obama has a special card to play with Hispanic Catholics in South Texas (see here), it hasn’t registered yet, according to this geographical breakdown of the recent WaPo/ABC News poll.
The Evangelical Perplex
By Mark Silk — February 24, 2008
So what’s up with white evangelicals? David Brody quotes what the grizzled (well, henna’d) Richard Land offers by way of advice to John McCain, which boils down to: Talk to me and my kind and embrace the old values voter agenda as tightly as you possibly can. Then you’ve got Jim Wallis and company who […]
GOP Loses Amigos
By rvineis — February 23, 2008
Samuel Rodriguez contributes to tomorrow’s Washington Post with his take on the rift between the GOP and Hispanic evangelicals. Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Evangelical Conference, feels that the immigration debacle of last summer drove a wedge between the traditionally agreeable Republican party and evangelical Latinos. Rodriguez: “In the end, Hispanic evangelicals are married […]
Black Church Mobilized
By Mark Silk — February 23, 2008
The Plain Dealer looks at how the upcoming primary is playing in Cleveland’s black community with Mark Naymik’s article on the challenges faced by congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a Clinton supporter, and Margaret Bernstein’s on Obama’s church support. The latter focuses on Olivet Institutional Baptist Church and its pastor, Otis Moss, Jr. (Moss’s son, III, […]
White Democratic Worshippers
By Mark Silk — February 22, 2008
Hillary Clinton does substantially better than Barack Obama with white Democratic voters who say they attend worship weekly or more, according to a new Gallup analysis. The differential among those voters is 57 percent to 29 percent, whereas among the occasional attenders and those who seldom or never darken the door of a place of […]
IAF Mariachi
By Mark Silk — February 22, 2008
“On the streets of Chicago he began working to achieve a vision of protecting working people…”
The Huck Tapes
By Mark Silk — February 22, 2008
Hanna Rosin has a lovely piece up on Slate today on her search for video and audio tapes of Mike Huckabee’s sermons, when he was a Baptist pastor in Pine Bluff and Texarkana in the 1980s. They may not be, as Rosin says (presumably with tongue in cheek) “the 2008 campaign’s version of the Pentagon […]
Can’t We Just…
By Mark Silk — February 21, 2008
David Brody has posted an email being circulated by progressive faith leaders (whatever exactly that means). I challenge you to read to the end without nodding off. Dear friends, fellow clergy and people of faith: We are people of faith from all traditions and backgrounds, all genders and races and all regions across our great […]
Much Ado About Nothing
By rvineis — February 21, 2008
Today’s NYT piece on John McCain’s alleged unethical behavior has caused quite a stir. Conservative talking heads like Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham have rushed to McCain’s side. Yet, it is unclear how evangelicals will react to the controversy. CBN’s David Brody predicts much of nothing. Brody: “But my hunch is that for the most […]
The IAF Connection
By Mark Silk — February 21, 2008
As the Democratic race moves into the two-ring circus of Texas and Ohio, the poll numbers show a healthy lead for Clinton in the Buckeye State but not much of one in Lone Star country. You’d think she would be doing better there, given that Latinos, who have been among her strongest supporters in the […]
COMMENTARY: Liberal evangelicals: from a misnomer to a movement
By Cathleen Falsani — February 21, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) There was a time, not so many election cycles ago, when popular wisdom said it wasn’t possible, in good conscience, to be a born-again Christian and a Democrat. God was a Republican. Jesus was a member of the religious right. And all liberals were godless, anti-religious, baby-killing heathens. Well, […]
The Vessel
By Mark Silk — February 20, 2008
Sam Stein of Huffington Post noted what he thought was a new line in Barack Obama’s victory speech in Houston last night that seemed to designed to tamp down suspicions that he views himself as some kind of messianic political figure. It went: And I would not be running, as aware as I am of […]
COMMENTARY: The church in the marketplace
By Tom Ehrich — February 20, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK _ Valentine’s Day recently came and went. Other than homeward-bound pedestrians carrying flowers, my most memorable sighting on this day dedicated to love _ an ancient fertility festival rebranded for Christian martyrs _ was a clerk outside the Godiva store holding a $65 heart-shaped box of chocolates. His […]
COMMENTARY: The church in the marketplace
By Kay Campbell — February 20, 2008
c. 2008 Religion News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ On his first night, alone in the dark forest along the Appalachian Trail in Virginia last fall, Luke Ponder found himself dodging around his tent, fending off a hungry black bear with just shouts and the beam of his flashlight. The next day, the tail end of […]
