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Cynthia McFadden of ABC’s Nightline landed the first “exit interview” with President Bush about his faith. Those evangelicals still enamored of him or liberals convinced Bush is a fundamentalist, will be disappointed to hear he departed from orthodox Christian theology repeatedly. –“I’m not a literalist” about the Bible, he said. –He believes faith in God…

Forwarded to me from my sister-in-law: The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford’s office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were there…

“Seventy percent of our budget comes in December, so we live by faith, or by hope,” the Rev. Jim Antal, president of the Massachusetts conference of the United Church of Christ, tells the Boston Globe’s Michael Paulson. 70%! I know that charities get a disproportionate share of their donations this month as well so everyone’s…

“I would not say the free market corrodes the moral character. I would say the decline of moral character in democratic society has corroded, and is still corroding, the system of the free market.” –French philosopher and author Bernard-Henri Lévy (Hat tip: Cathy Grossman) Alan Greenspan made a similar point recently. He argued that the…

The San Antonio News-Express reports: A speeding pickup rear-ended a woman’s sedan on the South Side on Friday morning and sheriff’s officials say the driver said it was Jesus’ will because the other motorist was not “driving like a Christian.” Full story here. Perhaps the “Honk If You Love Jesus” bumper stickers should be replaced…

Beliefnet hit the skids in early 2002 when the dot.com bubble burst. We were out of money and not earning nearly enough money to support our staff. We were a bankrupt, dot.com focused on religion – not exactly a great magnet for new investors. And –dang — it didn’t even occur to us to get…

At Rikers Island, a massive prison in New York City, 66% of released prisoners end up coming back after committing a new crime. Jack Goldsmith, a former cosmetic industry executive, heard about this when he was volunteering there. At age 65, he decided to try to fix this. He created “Getting Out and Staying Out,”…

Another Republican heavyweight has fingered religious conservatives (or the oogedy-boogedies, as one conservative called them) as the culprits in the GOP loss. Jeffrey Hart (former aide to Nixon and Reagan and longtime contributor to National Review) writes: George W. Bush transformed the center-right party of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and his father, George H.W. Bush,…

The Bush administration’s “right conscience rule” is usually cast as being about preventing health care professionals from performing abortions if doing so violates their conscience or religious beliefs. But according to the rule’s advocates, it has important implications for the “morning after pill” or “emergency contraception.” The Los Angeles Times reports: Proponents, including the Christian…

“It was apparent that most of the dead were tortured. What shocked me were the telltale signs showing clearly how the hostages were executed in cold blood.” –A Mumbai mortician
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