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Changes in tone are no substitute for changes in substance.

Bob Edgar, United Methodist pastor, former Congressman, and former National Council of Churches general secretary, left this world last week while fighting for what mattered most to him: integrity and accountability in public life.

Nothing is as conducive to global radical mobilization as an exclusive theological summons.

Mainline Protestantism’s prophetic voice has been drowned out in the debate over who can sleep with whom and still do God’s work. Yes, it’s a big deal but so is the war in Iraq, public education…

Collins says he takes Jesus’ teachings seriously.

He’ll start by “figuring out homosexuality.”

Taseer’s assassin shot him multiple times at point blank range in a public market and then waited to be detained, allegedly expressing pride in his actions to the media that quickly surrounded him. It is the issue of blasphemy and the symbolic nature of a much-publicized case involving Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of maligning the Prophet Muhammad, that brought Taseer so centrally into the public eye in recent weeks.

It is easy to say that the “religious right” opposes the “secular left,” but what about the simple fact that many on the right are not religious, and many on the left are? The right-left division is…

Social conservatives claim they will bolt the GOP over gay marriage.

On the wrong side of history—again.