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Tell the Media to Stop Interviewing Ann Coulter
Abortions the Same But Deaths More Common Where Abortion is Criminalized
IMPERIAL POLITICS, CHRISTIANITY, AND THE TRUE JESUS
Evangelicals Go Green
US Sen. Sanders: Fox News Pushing for Iran War
Why Do All New Atheists Support Torturing Tibetan Buddhists and Killing Endangered Tigers?
Take Action on Children's Health Care Coverage
Faith-based Politics
Younger Evangelicals Changing Their Minds about the Christian Right
Proud of Iraq War? Atheist Christopher Hitchens Is; God Book Misses the Mark, Too
Barack Obama and W. E. B. Du Bois
Samuel Beckett on Jesus and Laughter
More Wayward Christian Soldiers
Wayward Christian Soldiers
Apology from former leaders of ex-gay ministries
Lift Your Voice Against Torture
Steeplejacking
Homosexuality, the Bible and Experience
Regulating Homeschooling
The Hindu Right and the Christian Right
Chris Hedges on Sam Harris
Right Wing Christian Terrorist Bomb Plot Stopped at Falwell Funeral
Is the Religious Right Dying?
Help Secure Children's Health Care
On Atheism
Mr. President: This place is not your place
Bill Moyers Interview in The Christian Century
Imagining a New Christian Sexuality
Analyzing the 2008 Election from a Faith Perspective
What is the Cure for Religious Illiteracy?
False Prophets
A World Where Lies Are True
Why Do Straights Hate Gays?
The Christian Peace Witness and Beyond: Get Ready for a Radical Christian Message
Is the Gay Rights Movement Reeling Backward?
Libby Verdict: Where My Sympathies Lie
The Human Hybrid Known as a Green Evangelical
The Privilege of Exclusion
My Debate with Tony Jones of God's Politics
On Budgets and War on the Poor
Poverty at 32-Year High
Soulforce's Equality Ride
Virgil Goode is A Disgrace
A Pink Reformation
Will Liberal Blogs Get the Real Point of the Edwards Blogger Flap?
A God who is not pleased with America’s economic mal-distribution
We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, "Stop it, now!"
On Religion and the Pornography of Imperial Violence
Why is the Christian Right So...Un-Biblical?
Why Civil Disobedience?
The Hollowness, Timidity and Hypocrisy of the Liberal Churches
Of Snowflakes and Doves
The Growth of Progressive Churches
Pig Racing
Sign Our "Call for Interfaith Reconciliation in US Congress"
The Atheist Challenge
Happy New Year
Exporting American Justice: The Execution of Saddam Hussein
Stand Up for Religious Freedom, Tell Rep. Virgil Goode to Stop Attacking US Muslims
Jesus and Fox News
"Sons of Birchers"--by Guest Blogger Don Wilkey
Not All Evangelicals Support The "Left Behind" Game
Why Did Religion and Politics Become All about Sex?
International Human Rights Day
What Can Ted Haggard Teach Us?
Reverend Billy's Ten Christmas Commandments
Progressive Christians in the News
Finding a Voice
Thanksgiving as an Environmental Holiday
From the Author of "Christianity for the Rest of Us"
Bipartisanship? Not on Balance of Power
Christians and the Democratic Victory
Another Misguided Adventure
The Fall of Ted Haggard
What I Learned from Tommy
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Barack Obama's Spiritual Journey
Political Gimmicks
The Tenets of Biblical Patriarchy
Learning From the Amish
Walking in the Shoes of Moltke and Jackson or Yoo and Gonzales?
Christian Voters Values Guide 2006
The Gospel of Green
Details, Details, Details
Partial Progressives
Torture: Where do you stand?
Christian Alliance for Progress Featured in Bill Scher's New Political Bestseller
Love of Neighbor is Never Neutral
Bishop Desmond Tutu: The Modern Successor to the Slave Trade
The Urgent Need for a New Christian Realism
Baylor Religion Study Raises Interesting Questions
Fear, Five Years On
Chuck Baldwin Responds to Jerry Falwell
The Practices of Just Peacemaking
A scientist's plea for Christian environmentalism
The Hidden Dangers of the Christian Right
Millennium Development, Poverty, and War
Billy Graham at 87: More Humility and Tolerance
Beyond Marriage
Evolution and Religion: Do They Conflict?
Basic Principles of the Just War Tradition
My Neighbor
Bounding the War on Terrorism: Military Expert Rejected Bush/Cheney/Lieberman View
Cracks in the Wall
David and Goliath
From Bystanders to Perpetrators
Guys Gone Wild: War, Nation-making and Boobies
Reclaiming Prophetic Faith
In the Name of Peace: Responding to the New Pro-War McCarthyism
Our Mutual Love of Christ
First Freedom First
"Morality is Not on Israel's Side"
"Have you no sense of decency, sirs?" GOP Plays at Being for Rise in Minimum Wage
Conservative Christians Gone Ooze-y
Who Says the Rapture can't be Funny?
Progressivist vs. Fundamentalist Conscience
How to Deal with the War Crisis-- Options to be Peacemakers
The Hysteria over Theocracy
What is Progressive Faith
Kings take pleasure in Honest Lips
Thoughts on the Middle East Crisis
The Anti-Gay Dishonesty of Focus on the Family
The Gift That Keeps Giving.
Regarding Religious Intolerance in Public Schools
Action Alert from Churches for Middle East Peace
You Better Work it!*
Pastor Dan Talks to Senator Obama
Time to Raise Your Voice.
The "PH"undamentalism of "F"onics
Seeing the Other: Sen. Obama Delivers Brilliant Speech on Faith and Politics
The Idolatrous Mixing of Church and State
must be election time: the values argument. again.
An Inconvenient Truth
Jesus is not a Republican
Jesus is Not A Republican (Nor a Democrat)
Payday Someday
Two Views on Inequality
An Evangelical's Lament
How Does God Speak in a Pluralistic Society?
We Need Dissidents
Highlights of Faithful Progressive Interview Series
I Do
Another Wedge Issue?
Rev. Rick Warren and the Left Behind Video Game
Who Knew?
From Battle Ground to Common Ground: Teaching About Religion in Public Schools
The Elite of These: Estate Tax Repeal Threatens Basic Fairness
The Takeover of America’s Churches
Abstaining From Facts
RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Rights and Responsibilities
Another 'milestone', same old story
Evangelicals and U.S. Foreign Policy
Distant Relatives
Christian Aid: Climate change a 'deadly threat' /Action Opportunity
The Meaning of Mother’s Day
Our Godless Constitution
Southern Baptist Seminary President calls for “Exit Strategy” from Public Schools
Powering Corruption
Divide and Conquer
The New Iraq Looks A Lot Like Lebanon: "Hezbollah on the Tigris?"
Are Southern Baptists Breaking Up Again?
Just Punishments
A Day Without Immigrants; A Day for Building Bridges
Mission Accomplished Three Years Later
Day of Truth?
Oprah Opens My Eyes
Calling All Fiscal Conservatives: If You Want to Stay the Course, Pay as You Go: Raise Taxes $10 Billion a Month for Iraq War
A Greener Faith
Crashing the Gate and Sounding the Alarm
A Voice for Missions
War Games Urge Caution on Any Military Move Against Iran
Remembering William Sloane Coffin
Give Him A Slap On The Wrist
Dear Mr. President
"To Whom Much is Given, Much is Required:" Christians Challenge Unethical Tax Cuts
Defining Wetlands to Death
The Religious Left
Opposing the War, Supporting the Troops
The Dangers of Focusing Too Much on Religious Identity
Force of Habit
The Dixie Chicks Are Back
Progress Slow on Darfur
Kevin Phillip's American Theocracy
The Democracy Has No Clothes
Splinter vs. Beam
Three Years of War in Iraq
Playing Hardball on Holy Ground
A Democrat To Be Proud Of
Magnifying God
Catholic Charities Abandon the Children
Guest Blogger Arden C. Hander : The Peaceable Kingdom, American Style
Are Evangelicals Leaving the Republican Party?
In Celebration of Women
Human Dignity is Not Expendable
Falwell Sends the Jews to Hell
Common Ground: 'We Share the Goal of Reducing the Incidence of Abortion' But See Other Issues for Good Catholics
I chose to stand with my friends
Not A Big Surprise
A Vision for America?
Iraq War Squeezes Average Americans: Time to Bring America Home
A Buffet of Calamities
Christians Need to Speak Out on Gitmo and Other US Human Rights Abuses
The Baptizing of America
All They Can Be
New Climate Initiative: Evangelical Conservatives and Moderates Break Ranks with Extremists
The Discredited and Disgraced Dr. Paul Cameron
The Truth Is Not Polite
Cartoons of Mohammed
"A Retreat and a Defeat:" Evangelicals Take No Stand on Global Warming
God's Senator
Join Us In The Real World
Talk to Hamas
Oprah, the Liberty Counsel and Bearing False Witness
Brian McLaren on the Homosexual Question
Welcome Back to the Good Ole Days
Love is Patient, Love is Kind...
The Left Hand of God
Cat Got Your Tongue?
My Grandma and the Medicare Debacle
Will Iran be the Next "Just War"?
What Would Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Do Today?
Edward Larson and Noah Feldman on Science and Religion
Ladies, Are You Scared Yet?
Loconte: "Muzzle the Christian Left"
New Courses Charted For Fundamentalists Conventions
Of Miners, Miracles, and the Human Condition
Throwing up a huge wall between science and faith
An Arrogant Executive
Shhh...King George is Listening
The Weight of a Snowflake
Does Christianity Squash Women?
Preparing for 2006
My Personal Skirmish in the War on Christmas
The Rise of Dominionism
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
You Are Being Watched
When Christians Become the Stumbling Block
'Full-Quiver' Theology
Religious Leaders Arrested Protesting Immoral House Budget
A Real Patriot Act
Executed by the Golden State
Goin' Nucular
National Week of Prayer and Action for Compassionate Priorities: December 12-16
The Gay Invention
Holiday Talk
Political Warriors or Followers of Jesus?
Who's Protecting Iraq?
Please Pray for Christian Peacemaker Teams
A Stranger in the Pulpit
Black Friday, For Sure
The President's "Mission from God"
Remembering the Least of These this Advent Season
Mindful of Him: Responding to the Vatican
God and Country
Wrapped In The Flag
Falwell Fights the Grinch, Again
House Budget Cuts Vital Services
Kinism
Saving the Whales
Pat Robertson: "Dover is Damned"
Impeach the President
Faith and Politics and this Week's Election Results
Quoting Jimmy Carter
One Year Later
Beware of the Wrath of Washington
To Sin by Silence
Iran President Calls for Destruction of Israel
Is President Bush an Atheist?
Operation Distraction
Selling the War
Rosa Parks, Progressive Christian Activist
Responding to Intelligent Design
Another Sad Milestone
NCC: "Proposed Budget Cuts Sinful"
Quick! Let's Find Another Country to Invade!
The Pendulum Swings: Beyond Indictments, a New Movement Wins Key Battles
The Evangelical Ethic and the Spirit of Neo-Imperialism
Tempering Indictment Excitement
How Do You Approach the Bible?
Assault on the Poor and Middle Class
Not Hillel or Jesus, but Ebenezer Scrooge Guides Our President and Congress: Call Them on US Budget on Mon. & Tues.
Dobson, Land and Warren
A Leap of Faith
Earthquake Draws Global Response
Conservative Chaos
Leonard Pitts on Race in America: "Further ahead than we once were, but not as far as we ought to be"
Roy and His Rock
Who's Afraid of Harriet Miers?
God's October Surprise
Rotten to the Core
Health Care Crisis in U.S. Grows More Urgent
Quoting Tom DeLay
Hammer Time
House Passes Bill Allowing Religious Discrimination
"Make Levees Not War": Demonstrating for Peace in DC
Race & Class Back on Political and Religious Radar
The Age of Polymorphous Perversity
The Eleventh Voter
Are Liberal Values Frightening?
Hurricane Bush: The Disaster Continues
Mainstream Religious Leaders Urge New Budget Priorities in Wake of Katrina
The Buck Stopped
Bill Moyers on the Christian Right
Trapped in New Orleans
The Clergy Letter Project
Some Sad Facts, Christian Priorities and Two Calls to Action
The Christian Right Responds to the Gay Marriage Bill in California
Laboring On
Responding to Disaster
People of Faith Declare: "Our Creator is NOT a Murderer."
Katrina and Beyond: We Need a New War on Poverty or America is a Failure By Any Measure that Matters
Katrina and the Christian Right
Where Is The Outrage?
Values, Vision and the Via Media Conference
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Mainstream Christian Leaders Speak Out on Extremist Statements of Pat Robertson
Rick Warren's Political Purpose
The Ultimate Punishment
This Unjust War
The Nagging Problem of Racial Discrimination
So-Called Pro-Life Group Attacks Deceased Iraq Marine, His Family & Care-Givers
A Global, Ecumenical Council to Address Biblical Literalism
A Noble Cause
"Just Us" Sunday II; A Review
"Shedding the Unreality": The Bush Administration Climbs Back Out of the Rabbit Hole
From the Grass Roots: Remarks by Jackie Muehl, One of Our 10,000 Members
What does the Christian Right think of Cindy Sheehan?
Sustaining the Unsustainable: The Energy Bill
Seeking a Savior
Torture: The Word You Won't Hear Discussed on Justice Sunday II
Building a Movement: Lessons from the Civil Rights Era in the Deep South
The Bible in Public Schools
Seeing Red: Two Blue State Governors Take Another Look At Abortion
A Moderate Voice Speaks the Truth
The Fake Crisis: The Right Wing's Propaganda Tool of Choice
Shaking the Biblical Foundations by Guest Blogger Dr. Bruce Prescott
Down with Feminism, Up with the Patriarchy!
One for the Team
Thoughts on Abortion
Sinless in the Capitol? - Not Under the Bush Watch.
An Interview with Kathleen LeRoy, Christian Alliance for Progress V.P.
Eric Rudolph and Christian Violence
Play Ball! : The Nomination of Judge Roberts
The ACLU are Terrorists?
Whatever Happened to Fundamentalist Progressives?
Think Globally & Act Locally? Yes, but…Looking for a New Paradigm
The Reformed Prose of Douglas Wilson
If It Looks Like A Duck: Karl Rove and the Outing of Valerie Plame
Falwell; "Christian Alliance is not Christian"
The New Inquisition
Our deepest sympathy, prayers and friendship to the people of London
Three Recent Baptist Sermons Challenge the Christian Right
...And Justice For All: Thoughts on Sandra Day O'Connor
UCC Calls for Equal Marriage Rights
If It Doesn't Fit You Must Acquit: Why Romans 1 Can't Be Used Against Gays in Public Policy Debates
Update: O’Connor Resignation... Hungry for Change: Help Us to Define a New Agenda Based Upon Your Values
How the Christian Right Wants to Reinvent America
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER TERM: The Supreme Court's “Ten Commandments” Decisions
Weeding God's Field
We Won't Go Back: The Biblical Case for Protecting Women Who Need An Abortion
Christian Alliance for Progress Update & "You Are the One," by Guest Blogger Xpatriated Texan
The Southern Baptist Convention and Homosexuality
MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY: The Use of Recess Appointments to Circumvent Senate Filibusters
Building Diverse Alliances
Weird Science: How Dogma and Ideology Have Triumphed Over Reason in American Conservative Politics
Transforming the Moral Values Debate: Ten Reasons to be Hopeful
Christian Racism
What is a Progressive Christian?
An American Theocracy: What Every Citizen Should Be Concerned About
Really Left Behind: Scorning the Least of Thee
Thinking about the possibilities of future "world-changing"
The Kingdom of God
God Also Created Adam and Steve: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage
Reclaiming the Word Christian
The Theocratic Freedom of Wearing Biblical Bandanas and Homeschooling
A “Christian” Crusade?
Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Soaring Cost of American Militarism
Why Christians Should Support Stem Cell Research
A Theory of (Moral) Relativity
Religious McCarthyism: What’s Really at Stake in the Judicial Nomination Fight
Me and My Buddy Jerry Falwell
FP's Opening Thoughts: The Cavalry Has Arrived!