Who said that “democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and of moral purpose”” Why, it was that nominal Episcopalian FDR, as Lew Daly points out in his Boston Review essay on religion, politics and the concept of the common good.
Gordon Brown is the third Prime Minister in a row in Great Britain to “do God.” The son of a Church of Scotland minister, he says he will bring “competence and serious moral purpose” to government.
Are Republican voters really “conservative” in the culture wars sense of the word? Not really, suggests a poll from Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates, which you can find on MSNBC’s blog, First Read. Fifty-two percent believe abortions should be legal under certain circumstances, and 51 percent agree that universal health care should be a right of all people.
If you aren’t familiar with “Following the Money: Donors and Activists on the Anglican Right,” drop in to the Diocese of Washington Web site, then
Writing on The American Prospect’s Web site, Paul Waldman says research shows that the more secular people there are in a county, the more likely that people from evangelical denominations who live there will vote Republican. Why, you ask?
Here’s the real problem with American liberalism: there is no such thing. What we call American liberalism is a Frankenstein’s monster of incongruous parts – a fat, affluent, overeducated New York/Washington head crudely screwed onto the withering corpse of the vanishing middle-American manufacturing class.
Coverage in the major media today on the launch of ONE Vote ’08 focuses on politicians reaching across the aisle and Bono’s increasing influence on
Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean, who left the Episcopal Church in a dispute over the route of a bike path, and who once identified Job
The ONE Campaign’s commitment to make poverty history was stepped up June 11 when a mass media and mobilization effort to make global poverty a
He says little about the current role of religion in his life. “I think it’s something between me and my creator,” McCain said in an interview with McClatchy Newspapers. “It’s primarily a private issue rather than a public one. … When I’m asked about it, I’ll be glad to discuss it. I just don’t bring it up.” He says he attends the Southern Baptist North Phoenix Church because they are “strong on redemption and so am I.” McCain still identifies himself as Episcopalian.