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International Religious Freedom: The orphan issue of 2008
By
David Gibson
Amid the final campaign push, the 10th anniversary of the nation’s landmark covenant on international religious freedom passed largely unnoticed on Monday. That is more than a shame. The International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (IRFA) was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Democratic president who proved to be better promoting this…
“National Get Kicked Out of Church Parking Lot Weekend”
By
Mara Vanderslice
Catholics should guard their windshields this coming weekend. Priests for Life held a national conference call on Oct. 27th (posted on their website) where they spoke to volunteers who they had been recruited to flyer Catholic church parking lots with anti-Obama abortion flyers. On the call they told activists to connect with various state-level groups…
Why Al-Qaeda is Endorsing McCain
By
Paul Raushenbush
Eboo Patel refflects on the reason in his blog on Washington Post’s On Faith “Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election.” So reads a website closely associated with Al-Qaeda, according to Nick Kristof in his Sunday New York Times column. It’s no surprise that Bin Laden and his henchman are watching the…
The Election Sermon
By
Forrest Church
There’s a noble tradition in the ministry, going back to the 17th Century. One or two Sundays before an election, almost every preacher in the land devoted his sermon to the body politic. It’s a great literary genre. Often, the brimstone was so hot that an Election Day sermon was the one sermon a…
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