Opinion
Mitt and Ralph
By Mark Silk — January 29, 2008
That’s Reed. Bottom line: Religious Right bigs prefer Romney to McCain.
Sunshine Christian Soldiers
By Mark Silk — January 29, 2008
Here’s a Florida pastor’s cri de coeur for Huckabee: Where have all the evangelicals gone? The polls show Huck struggling in fourth place. If there are as many evangelicals in Florida as John Green thinks there is, then a smaller proportion of them are voting for Huckabee than elsewhere. Of course, there are various possible […]
Faith in our Union
By rvineis — January 29, 2008
David Kuo and John J. DiIulio Jr, former directors of the White House office of Faith Based Initiatives, criticized the Bush administration’s leadership of their department in today’s NYT. Kuo and Dilulio defended the positive effects of religious giving like providing social services to low income citizens, daycare, and assistance for the homeless. Yet, they […]
Bush: Faith Helped My Fight with Drinking
By rvineis — January 29, 2008
President Bush said today that his faith helped beat his alcohol problem. Bush speaking to a faith based program aimed at reforming inmates said, “I understand faith-based programs. I understand that sometimes you can find the inspiration from a higher power to solve an addiction problem.”
Obama in Macon
By rvineis — January 28, 2008
Here is Obama at Harvest Cathedral Church in Macon, Georgia. He uses the story of Luke 10, the good samaritan, to demostrate his public service background.
Anglicans for Obama
By Mark Silk — January 28, 2008
As this American Anglican website shows, religious conservatives continue to be drawn to Obama. Obviously they know that he’s pro-choice and in favor of civil unions (if not same-sex marriage). But they sense in him a moral seriousness and a spiritual authenticity that’s hard for them to resist–or perhaps, that they don’t want to resist.
Mormons v. Christians
By Mark Silk — January 28, 2008
To bring things up to date (see earlier post) on that Focus on the Family video in which Tom Minnery expresses his appreciation for Romney’s “acknowledging” that “Mormonism is not a Christian faith”: The AP’s Rachel Zoll got on the story right away, and learned from Minnery that he had come to that conclusion based […]
Huck Hope
By Mark Silk — January 28, 2008
OK, so the Washington Post‘s Joel Aschenbach doesn’t deal in profundities, but how do you do a little profile on the Hope, Ark. that both Billy Clinton and Mike Huckabee came from, and write a sentence like this–“Anyone on the Huckabee trail in Hope has to pay a visit to a local dentist, Lester Sitzes […]
The Death of LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley
By janshipps — January 28, 2008
Gordon B. Hinckley, the 15th President/Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day, died on Sunday, January 27, 2008. He was 97 years old. For 73 of those years he worked full-time for the church over which he would come to preside in 1995. Although he only served as church president for a dozen […]
Gordon Hinckley Dies
By rvineis — January 27, 2008
Gordon Hinckley, 15th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has died according to CNN. He was ninety seven years old. More to come….
Give Peace and Huckabee a Chance
By rvineis — January 27, 2008
Deacon Keith Fournier gives us a Catholic and former Democrat’s perspective on Mike Huckabee. Fournier has had it with Republican attacks on the Huckster. Dismissing criticisms that Huckabee is a one trick evangelical pony, Fournier highlights Huck’s strengths with a comparison to David and Goliath. Fournier: “Oh, I know, the new line of he media […]
Huckabee’s Dough
By Mark Silk — January 27, 2008
This from John Green: Let me hazard an answer to Mark’s puzzlement about Mike Huckabee’s well-documented fundraising woes. Several factors are worth considering. It could be, as Mark suggests, that some wealthy Republican donors have been put off by the candidate’s populist stands on economic issues. Likewise, stalwart conservative contributors may dislike his political heterodoxy. […]
Obama and the Churchgoing
By Mark Silk — January 27, 2008
In South Carolina, the more frequently Democratic primary voters said they went to church, the more they were likely to vote for Barack Obama. This represents something of a departure from New Hampshire, where he won both the most and the least frequent attenders. What I think it mostly means is that black church mobilization […]
Huckapenury
By Mark Silk — January 26, 2008
Since the Los Angeles Times reported on MIke Huckabee’s fundraising woes–staff cuts, minimal ad buys in Florida–a few days ago there’s been little sign that things are picking up for him. What I’ve been puzzling over is why. Sure, the Washington Post described the rank and file of the religious right as “poor, uneducated and […]
Preaching without Politics?
By rvineis — January 25, 2008
Newsweek has an interesting interview with mega-church pastor Joel Osteen who has remained a neutral figure in the presidential election. While Osteen yields enormous power from his 40,000 plus congregation and television following, he does not believe it prudent to mix faith and politics. Osteen: "If one of the presidential candidates were to attend, they […]
