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Christianity in America

When does strong criticism turn into bashing?

Voice of the Faithful seems to me to be asking for entirely legitimate demands.

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Christianity in America Episcopal Church

Desperation.

“All the provinces of the Anglican Communion are autonomous, so what is there to fracture?”

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Christianity in America Politics

Jesus plus nothing.

Jeffrey Sharlet’s compelling expose of the power-Christian fraternity in Washington, D.C.

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Christianity in America Politics

God and other famous liberals.

Democrats are making a fatal mistake by keeping religion under wraps in national politics.

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Christianity in America Politics Reading Scripture

He liked tax collectors, too.

“If Jesus were active in politics today, wouldn’t he be lobbying for the poor?”

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Christianity in America

Faith and freedom.

Unitarian-Catholic relations in the 19th century.

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Christianity in America Politics

Breached?

The Bush Administration picked a vulnerable spot in liberal doctrines about the wall separating church and state to insert the wedge of government funding.

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Christianity in America Reading Scripture

Elevation.

A Freedom Trail guide tells tourists that Puritans founded a “city set upon a hill” because they believed that the higher up you are, the closer you are to God.

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Christianity in America

Extreme Christianity.

Two assessments of fundamentalist groups in the U.S.

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Christianity in America Politics

If only…

“Christian right talks of bolting GOP in 2004.”