The progressive religious group Faith in Public Life, founded after the ’04 elections, is holding a conference call right now on its new polling of religious Americans, paying special attention to young evangelicals, Catholics, and other Some key findings from the poll: Monthly worship attenders swing to Obama in 2008. The greatest shift in candidate…

Remember back to the Republican primaries, when Mike Huckabee campaigned as a new kind of evangelical candidate, adding issues like the environment, education, and poverty to the hot-button agenda of God, guns, and gays? That big-tent Huck seems to be in much shorter supply now. An email the Arkansas governor just sent out soliciting donations…

Spiritual Politics’ Mark Silk took a close look at the new Survey USA poll from Virginia, which gives Obama an eye-popping ten-point lead, and discerned a narrowing of the God Gap–including the white God gap: Since SUSA’s late June Virginia poll, in which Obama led by only two points (49-47), the numbers for occasional attenders…

Many in the conservative pro-life movement are getting fed up with Barack Obama’s overtures to pro-lifers by offering a new take on the issue, vowing to reduce demand for abortion rather than curtailing abortion rights. This growing frustration is evident in comments on this blog from National Right to Life Legislative Director Douglas Johnson in…

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