When people say “America is being run by evangelical Christians,” they usually mean that it only feels that way. But evangelicals have rarely been as prominent as they are today, and a major new study by sociologist Michael Lindsay reveals, evangelical Christians now hold seats of influence in American government, business, culture, and higher education. What are the implications of evangelicals’ rise to power?
The American Prospect, a liberal opinion magazine, now devotes a regular feature to chronicling the political machinations of the Religious Right. It’s called The FundamentaList.
The Washington Post writes: “In the wildly popular ‘Left Behind’ series of evangelical Christian novels, the Antichrist takes the form of the secretary general of the United Nations, sets up an abortion-promoting world government and becomes the Global Community Supreme Potentate. Last night, the National Association of Evangelicals met for dinner at the Sheraton in Crystal City. The keynote speaker? Why, the Antichrist himself.
The Episcopal Church and the United Methodist Church are urging US legislators to reconsider the vetoed legislation for funding the State’s Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Graham Nash says “the world is in such peril. Most religions are being taken over by people who want to kill their neighbors. I find
Does a nation full of Christians make for a Christian nation? Newsweek editor Jon Mecheam writes an op-ed in today’s New York Times reminds us
The Presiding Bishop said: “We cannot triumph over global poverty . . . unless we also address climate change, as the two phenomena are intimately related. However, a third critical element is missing from the discussion. Unless we take an honest look at industrial animal agriculture and the food choices that support this system, our progress in mitigating world hunger and climate change will be significantly hampered.
News came this week that the ban on religious books (other than primary texts like the Bible, the Torah, or the Koran, etc…) in US Prisons has been reconsidered.
All Saints Episcopal Church of Pasadena, California, will keep its non-profit status after a two year inquiry of a sermon given by a visiting speaker in 2004, but the IRS also found that the sermon was an improper intervention in electoral politics.
That’s the headline on the op-ed by John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, in the Observor. The archbishop writes, “The time has come for Mr Brown finally to slay the ghosts of Britain’s colonialist past by thoroughly revising foreign policy towards Zimbabwe and to lead the way in co-ordinating an international response. The time for ‘African solutions’ alone is now over.”