Tag: Faith & Politics
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Christians & Politics: Faith-filled or Faith Fooled?
In case you have been sleeping like Rip Van Winkle, this is a Presidential Election year in the USA. Faith will be declared, inspected, invoked, and provoked from all sides over these next few months. Some will offer opinions from positions of knowledge, while others will offer authoritative sounding opinions from positions of functional ignorance. …
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What is Your Moral Gauge?
Here is a provocative article by Ben Stevens for the Huffington Post: Two Lesbians Raised a Baby: A Response. The premise behind Stevens’ piece is derived from the logic of a video of an Iowa college student named Zach Wahls that has gone viral. Wahls makes a compelling argument that he, though having been raised…
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Mormonism vs. Christianity
With the hubbub surrounding Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress’ endorsement of Gov. Rick Perry with a denouncement of Mitt Romney and his Mormanism, the bigger, more important point may be easily overlooked. It is easy to get caught up with the politically related issues. I for one wonder what the opponents of California’s Proposition 8 think…
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Never Exchange the Pulpit
With all the hubub that has surrounded Glen Beck and his aspiration to ascend to top of the Religious Right leadership, I was encouraged by an open letter written by Nancy Guthrie to the pastors of her church. Guthrie states that what has concerned her more than the fact that Beck is a Morman…
