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This presidential election has a symbolic sub-plot in which ancient archetypes vie for the American voter’s soul…

Our election columnist stands at the fulcrum of hope and dismay as he contrasts the candidates’ rhetoric…

How is it that a holiday and fasting month that inspires Muslims to do good things provokes a volatile reaction in a country that prides itself on religious freedom?

Conservative evangelicals plan to protest for the right to endorse candidates from the pulpit; they forget that their tax-free existence is a right, not a privilege…

Like Bush in 2000 Sarah Palin is delivering a clear message to conservative evangelicals, who get her call for women to view their highest calling in service to male leadership: willing helpmeets to their husbands’, fathers’ and pastors’ authority…

Nancy Pelosi was denounced by Roman Catholic bishops and cardinals for deviating from their line on “pelvic issues,” a common criticism from the Church hierarchy. Bishops and cardinals may be pastors, administrators, and lobbyists, but they’re no theologians…

McCain’s choice of Palin and her veiled suggestion that Obama’s faith-based work might not represent a correct interpretation of either politics or theology are symbolic messages aimed at a specific religious constituency…

Obama may just be doing what he needs to win but that compromise requires the abandonment of King’s dream…

McCain and Obama each had one problematic pastor. Palin has four…

Does Obama’s coded evangelical language signal a shift from black prophetic politics to the evangelical politics of personal salvation?