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It’s somewhat surprising that it took so long for this story to get some attention today. True, the allegation that Ted Haggard, pastor of the New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, had a homosexual affair is just that–an allegation. But the news that he has stepped down…

As we gear up for the upcoming presidential election battles, once again Sojourners reminded me that God is not a Republican. Or a Democrat. In lieu of the plethora of partisan propaganda I often receive from both the Religious Right and the progressive left, I welcome their biblically based voting guide that outlines the Christian…

For the last three years, I directed a grassroots research project on vital mainline Protestant congregations that involved “on the ground” – or perhaps “in the pews” – surveys, interviews, and field observations. In the fall of 2004, immediately before the last presidential election, I was at Church of the Redeemer, an Episcopal church in…

The latest news on the election, Iraq, faith and politics, the first woman presiding bishop, the middle east, landmines in Columbia, religion and law, and selct op-eds. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Election. Defiant Bush stumps for Iraq policy On voters’ minds though not on the…

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud. – Proverbs 16:18-19 + Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

It is not what we do that is important, but how much love we put into what we do: we should do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa + Sign up to receive our quote of the day via e-mail

There’s an election a week away, and consequently some of us are pretty busy with election reporting and commentary. But that shouldn’t mean that the discussion here at God’s Politics stalls. So here’s an article I highly recommend by Slate’s Jacob Weisberg on negative campaign ads. As Weisberg points out, a “negative” ad used to…

The latest news on the election, voting rights, abortion, the Middle East, Iraq, Darfur, North Korea, religion, and select op-eds. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Election. Campaign fireworks fly as polls put Senate in play – “On a day of heated coast-to-coast campaign confrontations, a flurry…

He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant to all.” Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever…

Jesus brought us a new life in ultimate vulnerability. As a child he was dependent on the care and protection of others; he lived as a poor preacher without any political, economic, or military power; and he died nailed on a cross as a useless criminal. It is in this extreme vulnerability that our salvation…
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