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This week’s Republican presidential debate began with a visual homage to Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. It continued with unanimous candidate endorsement of small government and deregulation-…

Archaeologists say that the pyramids were used to store dead pharaohs. Ben Carson thinks that the pyramids were used to store grain. Carson is wrong. But to simply point out that he’s wrong is to miss…

Scrutiny of the veracity of Ben Carson’s account of various events in his youth continues, with the Wall Street Journal casting doubt on Carson’s claim to have sheltered white students in his high…

This weekend a small cadre of far right Christian leaders are hosting a conference on religious freedom in Iowa. The freedom they are fighting for is the right to organize all of culture according to…

Ben Carson made his mark with white evangelicals with his 1990 memoir, Gifted Hands, and they are now the core of his supporting in the Republican presidential primary. But now that the media is…

As part of his effort to reboot his flailing presidential campaign, Jeb Bush has unveiled a Religious Liberty Advisory Commission, presumably to up his bona fides with religious conservatives who are…

This week I was a guest on the Center for Inquiry podcast “Point of Inquiry” to discuss, among other things, Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s appeal to evangelical Republican voters, and how Trump is…

Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about…

Two polls out this week show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump among likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers. A Quinnipiac University poll out yesterday has Carson leading…

In light of this Christian Post article on the “Christian Voting Guide” put out by Rev. Steven Andrew, I was curious to see how Jesus himself would stack up against other candidates. The short answer…