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By: Marcia Ford Greetings! I’m Marcia Ford, author of We the Purple: Faith, Politics and the Independent Voter, and I’ll be your guest blogger this week. I know I’m in good company here; not only am I always up for a rousing and boisterous conclave on faith and politics, but also in my book I…

Steven Waldman asks his earlier question in a different way; this time focusing on the “moral” question of whether I, and others who supported the war, ignored the pope on this issue. Did I find John Paul II persuasive in the run-up to the invasion? Yes, in the sense that I checked and re-checked my…

On April 3, 2008, Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) authorities raided the Eldorado, Texas compound (known as the Yearning for Zion ranch) of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) polygamist sect. The authorities raided the compound based on reports that underage, pubescent girls were being forced into “spiritual” marriages with considerably older men—a…

On May 5, 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a law marking the first Thursday in May every year as a National Day of Prayer. (Earlier, President Harry Truman had declared a National Day of Prayer in 1952, but did not specify a particular day.) Today, May 1, was the 20th anniversary of the National Day…
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