Ben Carson
Iowans: Trump’s attack on Carson’s faith will fail
By Jennifer Jacobs — October 27, 2015
DES MOINES — Iowa Republicans say Donald Trump's sneak attack on Ben Carson's religion won't work.
Ben Carson’s faith (and mine) has already touched your life (COMMENTARY)
By Mark A. Kellner — October 26, 2015
What Donald Trump doesn’t know about Seventh-day Adventism could perhaps fill a book or two. But the 1 million Adventists in the U.S. would be happy to tell him -- or anyone else -- the full story.
Ben Carson wants abortion outlawed, even in cases of rape or incest
By Richard Wolf — October 25, 2015
Mothers should not have the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, Carson said, just as slave owners did not have the right to do whatever they wanted to their slaves.
Ben Carson wouldn’t vote for Muslim president because he takes religion seriously (COMMENTARY)
By Trevin Wax — October 19, 2015
(RNS) People have a right to take a candidate’s religious views into account before they cast a vote -- whether they are evangelical, Catholic, Muslim, Hindu, or not religious at all.
Why Richard Dawkins’ new book won’t win him many converts (COMMENTARY)
By Jacob Lupfer — October 16, 2015
(RNS) The dialogue between faith and science will continue, but, at 74, it is doubtful that Richard Dawkins will show interest in contributing meaningfully to it.
Dr. Carson, Rev. Wright, enough bizarro history!
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 13, 2015
No other people has its story as distorted as much as the Jews. Tired of it yet?
Ben Carson, it’s time to tour a Holocaust museum (COMMENTARY)
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 12, 2015
(RNS) If he did, Carson might drop that line about Hitler and gun control.
Ben Carson, will you tour the Holocaust Museum with me?
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 9, 2015
If you did, you might drop that whole line about Hitler and gun control.
75 percent of Republicans ‘less likely’ to vote for Muslim
By Reuters — October 2, 2015
In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 23-30, 75 percent of Republican voters said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who is Muslim.
Sen. Ted Cruz, Ben Carson top choices at evangelicals event
By Reuters — September 27, 2015
Donald Trump, who came to the Values Voter Summit waving a Bible, came in well behind Cruz, a preacher's son, and Carson, a Seventh Day Adventist.
Evangelicals’ event to hear Trump and Carson — no Jeb!
By Reuters — September 25, 2015
The religious right's Values Voters Summit lineup this weekend will also include Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, former Sen. Rick Santorum and Sen.Marco Rubio
Ben Carson’s Muslim comments ignore his own denomination’s history (COMMENTARY)
By Aaron Griffith — September 23, 2015
(RNS) One wonders whether Carson’s rhetoric about Muslims would at all be tempered if he recalled the example of beleaguered Seventh-day Adventists staring down forced Sabbath-keeping.
Teen clockmaker Ahmed Mohamed withdraws from Texas school
By Reuters — September 22, 2015
(Reuters) "These kids aren't going to be happy there," Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed said of the decision to pull his three children from the Texas school district where son Ahmed was arrested after high school staff mistook his homemade clock for a bomb.
Ben Carson: Muslims unfit to be US president
By Reuters — September 20, 2015
GOP hopeful Carson overlooks Article Vl (no religious test for office), saying a U.S. president's faith should be "consistent with the Constitution" and Islam is not.
11 faith facts about GOP candidates who debated on CNN
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — September 16, 2015
(RNS) Despite Christian talk host Hugh Hewitt on the panel of questioners, the candidates far less 'God talk' than in the Fox News debate.