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The unknown history of “Jesus Walks.”

For those who wonder about the religious dimensions of the Tea Party movement, an event earlier this month at Faith Baptist Church in Deltona, Florida, looked pretty much indistinguishable from the 1980s era church-based political organizing efforts of the religious right. As each local candidate…

Can you be a progressive and still be opposed to abortion, or to gay rights, or [insert hot-button social/cultural issue here]?

Time travel can make for interesting plot twists, but it can also take some of the suspense out of the story.

The Week in Religion, Poetically

The fact that I live in a neighborhood and a nation where each person’s right to celebrate Independence Day as noisily as possible is held sacred gives special piquancy to reflecting on a book about noise on such a day—right under the rocket’s red glare, as it were. …

The generous and successful programs of the New Deal weren’t pushed through via the lobbying of savvy, connected and nominally liberal religious advocates, they were underwritten by the “moralistic, idealistic and politically naive” movement known as the Social Gospel.

For the historically minded among us, the reasons for not bringing our spiritual authority into political campaigns are blood red.

A democratic political strategist proposes a divide and conquer strategy — but is there any data or logic to support it?

Just what does Mein Kampf have to say about Charles Darwin?