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The Chicago Tribune has a rundown of the new rules: At a news conference Thursday, Trinity’s leaders laid down the law for reporters who want to cover the church in the future. Permission must be granted on Thursday for reporters to attend Sunday worship services. All media must check in, wear a badge at all…

Barack Obama’s Faith Outreach Director just sent this email alert about new faith and values polling to Obama’s religious supporters: New polling this week shows that Barack Obama’s character and leadership on American values are having an impact with voters across the country of all parties and backgrounds. First, yesterday’s CBS / New York Times…

The Brody File reports that Barack Obama has joined Hillary Clinton in accepting and invitation to the April 13 Compassion Forum in Pennsylvania sponsored by the progressive group Faith in Public Life. McCain was invited, but declined, earning him a slap on the wrist from Brody. It’s one thing for McCain to blow off Christian…

Good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting by the JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) turned up a rare thing for this phase of the presidential race: an entirely new religion and politics story. Hillary Clinton has launched a serious Jewish outreach program in Pennsylvania this week, overseen by longtime top Clinton aide Ann Lewis: While Obama’s campaign is…

TIME’s Swampland reports on an online petition aimed at dissuading John McCain from picking Mitt Romney as his running mate. The effort is reportedly run by a fringe Christian Right group. But God-o-Meter would guess that McCain would improve his standing among the Christian Right leadership by selecting Romney, who courted those leaders so assiduously…

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…

Arguing that John McCain needs to step up evangelical outreach big time, David Brody says the Arizona senator will have an easier time winning evangelicals if he’s facing Hillary Clinton rather than Barack Obama: Look, McCain has a bill of goods to sell to social conservatives. I won’t list all of that here but campaign…
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