Harry Knox is director of the Religion and Faith Program at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The dust is settling on the General Conference of the United Methodist Church, the quadrennial legislative meeting held April 23 – May 2 in Fort Worth. I am heartbroken, as are my colleagues at the Human Rights Campaign, by…

As I write this, I am on a plane flying to Israel to attend official observances celebrating the nation of Israel’s 60th birthday. I was asked, along with others, by President Bush to be an “honorary” member of the official delegation representing America at events marking Israel’s 60th anniversary as a state. I was both…

The inevitable reality, as it pertains to the Democratic Presidential race and the subsequent National election (sorry Senator Clinton), paints a canvas where the seasoned veteran from Arizona, Sen. John McCain will face the Junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. As a member of the fast growing Brown Evangelical community, we find ourselves between the…

The criticism leveled against An Evangelical Manifesto, released this week, covers the expected territory, from questions about the motives of the steering committee and signers, to warnings that the devil is behind it all, to—get this—charges that the title of the document implies a connection with what is commonly called the Communist Manifesto. Never mind…

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