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Christians defend the president’s faith. Is that the right tack?

Mormon talk show host says Obama’s faith is a “perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

For the past four years, Pastor Bill Dunfee of the New Beginnings Ministries Church has led his congregation in picketing The Foxhole, a tiny gentleman’s club in Warsaw, Ohio. Church members usually arrive at the Foxhole on weekends at 11:30pm, bearing signs, bullhorns, and cameras. While…

Welton Gaddy talks faith and politics with Pastor Dan.

Ecclesiastical trials conjure up images of hooded inquisitors torturing poor souls, demanding them to recant on penalty of being burned at the stake. Although church hearings no longer result in a sacrificial barbecue, the tradition of the ecclesiastical trial is alive and well in many modern…

Spreading smears about not being “typical American Christians.”

Obama has proposed working with like-minded Muslims, through nations and networks, to build partnerships. Though it’s an awkward place for an American president to stand—because it could backfire. The last time we helped develop a network of Muslims who came together for common cause, it got messy; al Qaeda emerged from the bloody aftermath.

Only in the world of Glenn Beck can he both carry on the legacy of Martin Luther King and be the star student of a “biblical worldview” that minimizes slavery and claims that modern-day conservatives are the champions of racial justice.

That the kindergarten logic of “hear no evil, see no evil” is being used in order to sway public opinion in favor of the Center, but while the success of these maneuvers remains to be seen, its damage is immediately apparent: if Park51 ‘sounds’ nothing like mosque, claims to ‘be’ nothing like a mosque, and, ‘looks’ nothing like a mosque, then, and only then, does it emerge a defensible endeavor within the United States.

2007 interview sheds light on his recent comments about Feisal Abdul Rauf.