Human Events suggests that South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is open to being John McCain’s running mate, even though he didn’t endorse the Arizona senator in the state’s all-important primary earlier this year. In talking to prominent Christian Right activists across the country, God-o-Meter has been struck that Sanford appears to have more support as…

In the wake of the Jeremiah Wright flap, the United Church of Christ ran this full-page ad in yesterday’s New York Times. Because it was prompted by Barack Obama’s longtime minister, the ad could affect him as much as it does the UCC. The last paragraph of the text-heavy ad reads: Our unity is not…

He wasn’t always like this. Last year, after Mike Huckabee stirred controversy with an ad that characterized him a “Christian leader,” John McCain released his own Christian ad explaining what the cross meant to him as POW in Vietnam. A few months earlier, McCain had sat down with Beliefnet and opened up about his faith,…

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Erie’s Roman Catholic bishop protested Hillary Clinton’s Tuesday visit to a nearby Catholic college. Reminds you of the handful of bishops who challenged John Kerry in 2004 and helped him lose the Catholic vote, doesn’t it? There’s a critical difference, though: Kerry’s religious advisors begged him to give speeches in…

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