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Lest we forget, religion and politics are happening all over the world.  Here is an article from the Economist about the recent mayoral election in Jerusalem.  It is interesting that like in the US voters have rejected the percieved religious candidate in favor of the more pragmatic one. THE hollowness of Israel’s rhetoric about “united Jerusalem” is…

Here is a new twist on the abortion = no communion debate in the Catholic church.  A priest in South Carolina doesn’t want Obama voters to receive communion unless they have done penance.   “The priest at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in downtown Greenville has told parishioners that those who voted for Barack Obama placed themselves…

This is an interesting editorial in the Christian Science Monitor critiquing the Saudi sponsored United Nation General Assembly’s gatheing on Interfaith Dialogue.   Washington – World leaders gathering at the United Nations this week for a special session of the General Assembly to advance interfaith dialogue should have no illusions that their efforts will miraculously promote mutual respect between religious…

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…

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…

I don’t remember hearing the exact term before – but it is clear that the Pastor Problem is here to stay. There were three categories of pastor problems in the 08 elections. The most closely watched and problematic were the personal pastors of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.  Compliments of Barack Obama, the American voter…

Our friends at Sojouners put together this great list of letters: “Obama’s Harmony of Intellect and Intuition,” by Bono, Lead singer of U2 and co-founder of The ONE Campaign. “A Prayer for a New President and a New America” by Shane Claiborne, A Red Letter Christian and a founding partner of The Simple Way community, a radical faith community…

From Timothy Shriver over at OnFaith  When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, he’ll not only become Commander in Chief. He’ll also become the first ever Pastor in Chief. We’ve never had a Pastor in Chief, but that’s because we’ve never had a faith moment like this before. Spiritual hunger is…

             It’s easy to look at the events of Election Day and draw the wrong conclusion. It’s tempting to conclude that what happened after a long cruel and repressive eight years is that our democracy simply worked once again and proved to be self-correcting. Easy to breathe a sigh of relief and turn back to…

A great column by Jim Sleeper on Talking Points Memo… Even as we lurch from symbolism to substance now that Barack Obama is President-elect, I hope that he appreciates the symbolic and substantive rewards of being sworn in on January 20 as “Barack Hussein Obama.” During the campaign, neo-conservatives such as Daniel Pipes and others of Obama’s detractors thought it smart…
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