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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.
The vast majority of American evangelicals interpret the most obscure books of the Bible (Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation) in a [...]
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.
This list recalls the “common enemies of man” that JFK lamented in his 1961 inaugural [...]
The more things change…
A new religious right organization is emerging from the tattered remains of groups like the Christian Coalition and Moral Majority. This organization — calling itself the Freedom Federation — purports to have a kinder, gentler face than its predecessors, which all too often came across like the Blue Meanies. But the group’s agenda is anything [...]