Religion Writer, a blogger and frequent God-o-Meter commenter, thought last night’s Compassion Forum with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was “a little dull”: [A]fter all, how much new ground can be covered after the endless months of campaigning? Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek and co-host of the On Faith blog, tried to liven things up…

Sure, tonight’s Compassion Forum in at Messiah College featuring Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is being sponsored by a progressive group, Faith in Public Life. But the group says John McCain’s decision not to participate is not for lack its of trying. “Our allies had conversations at the highest levels of the McCain campaign,”…

A group of high-profile religious leaders supportive of Barack Obama has just released a letter to Hillary Clinton and John McCain defending Obama’s controversial remarks about small town Americans clinging to faith as a reaction to job losses. We applaud Senator Obama for saying something that many Christians contemplate every day. In our toughest times,…

This weekend’s brouhaha over Barack Obama’s comments on what plagues small town Americans threatens to undo much of the candidate’s groundbreaking work as a Democratic candidate reaching out the religious voters because it raises questions about how he really feels about religion and religious people, long Democrats’ Achilles’ heel among faith voters. Though John Kerry…

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