HomeCommon ground on abortion?
One of the big news items in the faith/politics world over the last week has been an abortion-related bill proposed by Reps. (…)
Obama = Antichrist? Sutton responds.
The other day I posted a critique of Matthew Avery Sutton’s claim that “the vast majority of American evangelicals” are radical fundamentalists who are soon going to conclude that President Obama is the Antichrist. My critique came in the form of a question: Where’s the evidence? Although it’s fun and easy to pick on evangelicals, at least in some quarters, an argument of this kind should feature at least a few facts if it’s to be taken seriously. (…)
Obama’s fruitless evangelical outreach?
Over at Religion Dispatches, Matthew Avery Sutton argues that President Obama’s entreaties to evangelicals will inevitably fall flat because the conservative Christian movement is “obsessed with the apocalypse” and bound to think Obama is the Antichrist. (…)
Science-Based Bellyaching
Barack Obama’s recent appointment of Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health should be uncontroversial. After all, Collins led the Human Genome Project, and he did it ahead of schedule and under budget. His own landmark scientific research led to the discovery of genes for cystic fibrosis and Huntington’s disease, among others. He is by all accounts a likable guy. The trifecta he offers — a great administrator, a great scientist, a great personality — is darn near unheard of. (…)
From Warren’s lips to Muslims’ ears
Rick Warren bolstered his non-extremist bonafides this past weekend by preaching interfaith action to a group of 8000 Muslims. The problems that he proposed tackling together include what he called “the five global giants” — war, poverty, corruption, disease, and illiteracy. (…)
Evangelicals’ new face
The newly appointed government affairs guy for the the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) seems to have some humanitarian street cred. Galen Carey has spent the last 26 years at World Relief, a respected advocacy and direct service group and that works on behalf of the poor, the hungry, and the sick — a true Matthew 25 organization if ever there was one. (…)