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Steven Waldman

According to a study described in the Stanford Social Innovation Review: “The primary difference between volunteers and non-volunteers, when measureing what they do with their time, is the amount of television they watch. People who do not volunteer watch undreds of hours of additional TV a year compared to people who do volunteer. It’s not…

The winner of Beliefnet’s Best Spiritual Film award is….

Polls have always shown that the vast majority of Americans believe religion is “an important part of their daily lives” — 65% in a recent Gallup poll versus just 34% who said it wasn’t. But that national average obscures a stunning variety by region. For starters, the Gallup poll shows that there still is a…

If you spend too much time reading political blogs, you’d come to think that the word “bipartisanship” is has the same Q ratings as “pedophilia” or “octuplets.” In fact, the one thing that activists of left and right agree on is that bi-partisanship is the province of the weak and amoral. Very often bipartisanship is…

Bristol Palin: “Everyone should be abstinent but it’s not realistic… [sex] is more and more accepted among kids my age…. It sounds naive. Life happens.” Can’t wait to hear the reaction from religious conservatives who HATE this way of thinking and LOVE Sarah Palin.

Apparently some religious conservatives don’t want to be referred to as “religious right” because it has negative connotations. Some on the left have said, in effect: tough noogies. If you don’t want it to have negative connotations, then stop having a “dangerous and divisive” agenda. I pretty much stopped using the term “religious right” some…

Some liberals have warned that Obama’s “new” White House “faith based” office violates separation of church and state. One progressive, Ed Kilgore, has a novel — and, to my mind, more persuasive — critique: Maintaning a White House “faith-based” group makes people of faith just another constituency group represented by political commissars who will compete…

We’re making some progress on finding bus ads that were a bit more compelling than those devised by the clerical authorities in England. Thanks especially to the posters at Crunchy Con and Jesus Creed. A few possibilities from the early offerngs: bob d OMG! Fodder John “My last name isn’t “dammit” – God” Fred of…
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