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Abortion Policy: When and Why
By
Ed Kilgore
One of the most animated discussions involving faith communities that’s underway in the wake of November 4 is about abortion policy. To put it simply, the conservative drive to take a first step towards a national abortion ban via an overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court has now stalled, perhaps for…
Christian Gate Keepers Declare Obama Not Christian
By
Paul Raushenbush
Crunchy Con’s Rod Dreher has joined with Joe Carter to declare that Obama is not a Christian. What do you think? Do you have to believe everything in the Nicene Creed to be a Christian? Is the Nicene Creed open to interpretation? By heterdox Christology, does Dreher imply that there is only one way Christians have approached…
The Faith of Barack Obama
By
Paul Raushenbush
In a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani, Barack Obama shows his particular strain of social gospel and cosmopolitan Christianity. Beliefnet’s Steve Waldman received permission to reprint the entire interview: The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama’s faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for…
Barack and Benedict:Together again for the first time
By
David Gibson
Not the Dream Team some Catholics envisoned, but the President-elect dialed the Pope personally to thank him for the congratulatory telegram. According to CNS: The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, confirmed to Catholic News Service Nov. 12 that the president-elect telephoned the pope Nov. 11 “to thank the pope for his telegram, his congratulations” on…
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