Christian Right

Who is that tattooed, pierced kid with the pink hair and the “You Will Not Mock Our God” T-shirt? How confusion about evangelicalism has obscured the Catholic influences of pro-life youth.

The president’s faith, according to John McCain, is “[the] number one issue.” Having scoured the public record, the author reports back with a startling proposal: John McCain may not believe in God.

While both progressives and conservatives seek confirmation of their politics in the bible, how does one derive a political outlook from a text with few parallels to the political context in which we live? In other words, how do you ask “What would Jesus do?” when the one thing Jesus couldn’t do was vote?

Small Town Spirituality, Big City Hate: For those with ears to hear it, Sarah Palin’s speeches echoed the work of Westbrook Pegler, a mid-century Rush Limbaugh, and then some….

Amid new rumors of man and dinosaur coexistence, the Texas Board of Education will be debating the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution and deciding whether to force religion into science class.

While biblical opposition to gay civil rights echoes the opposition to ending slavery, that institution didn’t end with the triumph of the abolitionist biblical view.

Cizik sizes up McCain; It’s Planned Parenthood, stupid!; Greening evangelicals; AFA voting guide; Prop. 8 updates

His “new evangelical” positions on global warming, condoms, et al., separate Warren from the old guard of the religious right—but when it comes to reproductive and gay civil rights, the best-selling reverend assumes the hardest of the hard line.

The roots of the economic crisis tap directly into a movement within American fundamentalism. Much has been made of Palin’s Pentecostalism but her links to The Family go unnoticed.

In a debate in which the bar was set so low as to be subterranean, values-related issues were almost entirely ignored.