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One of the most interesting evangelicals these days is Joel Hunter, senior pastor at Northland Church in Florida. He does not consider himself a part of the religious left. He’s a registered Republican, strongly anti-abortion, author of A New Kind of Conservative, and even spent about ten minutes as president-elect of the Christian Coalition. I…

Having suggested that pro-life progressives didn’t really win much in the platform struggles, I’d like to give equal time here to Jim Wallis, who worked hard to get abortion reduction included and argues that the platform was a “step forward.” The nub of his argument: The platform takes a significant step forward in affirming those…

My wife had to ask me three times before I consented to watch this video, which most of the rest of America has already seen.I did watch it last night, and it almost brought me to tears of happiness. What’s more, I keep thinking: why is this so inspiring? It involves no handicapped child getting…

McCain says he wouldn’t rule out Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania just because he’s pro-choice. Perhaps McCain thinks the conservative base is so freaked out about Obama that he can now get away with such heresy. (Beliefnet contributor Richard Land, a conservative Baptist, captured the typical conservative sentiment when he said recently that conservatives would rather…

The Obama campaign has been pointing reporters to the new Barna Group study showing that Obama leads among 17 of 18 faith groups. True enough, and if that holds, that would be very good news for Obama. But the study also showed Obama has been slipping noticeably with key groups: During the past two months,…

Oh dear. Jim Corsi, author of the new anti-Obama book that’s already hit the top of the bestseller list, apparently has an internet altar ego with some rather dramatic views. According to Media Matters, Corsi posted on FreeRepublic.com as “jrlc”: On Catholics and the Pope “Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with…

Much attention has been given the “celebrity” ad showing Obama alongside the paragons of ditzyness (Britney Speers and Paris Hilton). But some are arguing that it’s a second ad that will go down in the record books as an all time low – in part because it stokes fears that Obama is, literally, the anti-Christ.Here’s…

As I was putting together my pieces on the “faith factor” and the vice presidential candidates I found surprised myself. The logic of my own analysis pointed to two men I was not much thinking about. Obama will chose Joe Biden. I must say, if I’d drawn up a veep list a few list a…

“[House Speaker Nancy Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she’s just trying to save the planet. We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet — we didn’t need Nancy Pelosi to do that.” — Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota)

Earlier today I listened in on a phone press conference with leading pro-life religious liberals called by Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners. (Click here to listen to the call.) They were praising the new draft Democratic Party abortion plank which advocates government policies to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies. (Click here to read the…
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