Tag: Faith and politics

In 2008, polls showed that more regular-churchgoers voted for John McCain over Barack Obama. It appears that in this cycle, more church-goers are leaning towards Obama and away from Mitt Romney. Is the God-gap closing?

A report of an Occupy event in Manzanita OR from a member of the

Catholics for Marriage Equality in Minnesota is producing some simple, moving videos that make the against a proposed amendment to their state’s constitution that would ban same-sex marriage.

Middle-class evangelicals, by contrast, many of whose incomes have suffered under the ascendancy of free-market policy, support Republicans. They like the party that backs the American trinity: free men, free markets and the freedom for every citizen to have a personal relationship with Jesus.

When the Democrats had their floor fight about the Jerusalem the other day, it was an example of how evangelical Christian Zionists were able to intrude into American politics aided and abetted by inattentive journalists, ignorant of the ways religion and politics interact.

Bravo to the Rev. Susan McCann and others in Kansas City fighting a difficult battle to cap interest rates on onerous payday loans.

Sister Simone Campbell will speak Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention. According to