Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Where to begin? Palin doesn’t belong to a Pentecostal church now. When she did, we don’t know if she spoke in tongues. And most important, Speaking in Tongues is a religious practice in which Christians feel the direct presence of the Holy Spirit. Is that really something to mock? Did the Wa they run a…

I want to say at the outset that a) I believe the McCain’s ads have been much more dishonest than Obama’s, b) that the lying does matter (!) and c) conservative religious leaders ought to be smacking him but good for his violation of the 9th Commandment (8th if your Catholic or Lutheran).Having said that,…

Since we commonly ascribe Obama’s troubles with working class Catholics to his positions on abortion or his perceived “elitism” (how can you vote for a guy with a sub-80 bowling score???) it was useful to be reminded by a recent New York Times’ piece that sometimes substantive issues are excuses to cloak other factors: One…

What IS John McCain’s position on abortion and life issues? That may seem like an odd question. He has just appointed an antiabortion heroine to his ticket and approved the most antiabortion Republican platform ever. Surely if anything is certain in this shifting campaign it’s that John McCain is ardently against abortion. Not if you…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners