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Steven Waldman

For some time, we’ve seen the material flowing around the internet arguing that Barack Obama is the anti-Christ or a false Messiah. Now there’s a new twist: Sarah Palin is sent by God. That’s the message of this essay by Jim Bramlett, a former official at the Christian Broadcasting Network and Campus Crusade for Christ.…

Lifeway Christian Bookstores, owned by the Southern Baptist Convention, pulled from its racks the latest issue of Gospel Today because it featured some prominent women pastors. The Southern Baptist Convention opposes women pastors. In case you’re wondering how so many prominent Southern Baptists can support Sarah Palin for vice president and oppose women pastors, here’s…

Here’s a new Obama ad on abortion. It’s responding to an independent ad featuring, Gianna Jessen, a survivor of a botched abortion who criticizes Obama for opposing Illinois “born alive” legislation.Putting aside for a moment the conflict over the Born Alive bill, which I’ll address again in a separate post, what’s notable is the evolution…

The one thing everyone from Jim Wallis to John McCain seem to agree on is that rampant greed is a main cause of the financial collapse. I don’t buy it. I’m not saying greed is good, just that greed is. It’s a constant. It’s part of human character and I find no evidence that the…

I was fearing I’d have to soon turn in my pundit license after I’d predicted a couple of weeks ago that Palin’s faith would scare enough Florida Jews to put that state back in play. Ever since I made that prediction, McCain’s margin seemed to be growing in Florida rather than declining. I thought, ruh…

It looks like undecided evangelicals have decided — for McCain. The latest Pew poll has John McCain’s lead among evangelicals (77%-23%) almost identical to George Bush’s election-day margin over John Kerry in 2004 (78%-21%). In June, Pew had McCain with 65% and Obama with 25%. In other words, Obama has stayed the same, but the…

On the wall in my office is a going-away present from when I left Newsweek — seven cover stories I wrote in the late 1980s and early nineties. Someone walked into my office yesterday and noticed something I hadn’t, the eerie familiarity of two covers from 1990: Bonfire of the S&Ls: How much will You…

I keep fretting about that Republican strategist saying that the “bigger truth” – that Palin was “new” and “popular” – trumped the “smaller truths” (that she and McCain were lying). And the McCain campaign spokesman who defended their dubious attacks by saying, “We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what…

In response to my post about the Oliphant cartoon mocking Palin for speaking in tongues, reader “price of liberty” makes two points worthy of discussion: “We have a double standard: Its ok to make fun of the religion of Obama(or the fact that someone doesn’t believe him), but its not ok to make fun of…

“Do not buy fish in the sea, for it is gharar .” –Islamic Hadith Gharar means “speculative and risky.” This hadith, a saying of Muhammed, suggests waiting until the fish are actually caught before plopping down good money. In other words, avoid transactions in which the financial commitments become too distant from the underlying goods.…
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