Category: Politics

Against the tide

Support for same-sex marriage is gaining ground because of the kindness of ordinary Americans, and because we have failed to think critically about what marriage is really all about.
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Second chances

The voters have given President Obama a second chance. Christianity is all about our need for second chances.
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47%? Mitt Was Being Optimistic

It's twilight in America.
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Another 'Dewey Defeats Truman' Moment?

Will we see another "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment when the American voter will buck the pundits?
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Four More Years?

Thoughts on the President's acceptance speech in Charlotte.
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The new face of human slavery

Sex trafficking and human slavery are rising rapidly around the world in places where the poor and weak are being victimized, and good people look the other way.
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A modest proposal to save Social Security, and America

The reason Social Security is going broke is: too many old people and not enough babies. Inspired by Obamacare, I propose a plan to save Social Security.
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Petroleum politics

It is silly, magical thinking to believe that we don't need oil. You might as well believe in unicorns and leprechauns.
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Free Big Macs for all!

If Catholics can now be forced to buy our condoms, can vegans be forced to buy us Big Macs?
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Deep blindness

The Obama administration's HHS contraception funding scheme is deeply offensive to people of faith, and crosses a cherished constitutional line by forcing men and women of faith to cooperate in the advancement of a morally reckless view of human sexuality.
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In search of peace

Where can we go to find peace when life blindsides us?
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Inciting envy

Occupy Wall Street, and the politicians who have encouraged it, blame the rich for all of our woes and hope to make a virtue out of envy.
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Healthcare: One tough coconut

Our healthcare challenges won't be solved by a massive new federal Rube Goldberg machine.
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Putting America back to work

The biggest drain on American productivity is long check-out lines. I have a solution.
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To dream the impossible dream

The President has demanded, and failed to get, an impossible combination of new government programs and robust economic growth. It's time for some humility and a new approach.
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Divided we stand

The current debt debate is not evidence that government is broken, but that Americans don't agree on a single vision for American governance.
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We still hold these Truths...

Some thoughts on the enduring truths found in Thomas Jefferson's Declaration, on this July 4, 2011.
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Biden: A snore away from the presidency

Joe Biden: a snore away from the presidency.
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Despairs of the heart

The horrific shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was not driven by the killer's ideology, but by his spiritual and moral emptiness. The true source of his rage was the existential meaninglessness of a life cut off from the source of all hope, Jesus Christ, our redeemer and creator.
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Hoping for change

I once bought a vacuum cleaner from a smiling, silver-tongued door-to-door salesman. As soon as he left with my check in his hand, I had buyer's remorse. Today, the American voter gets to do something about his buyer's remorse.

In, but not of...

Authentic Christianity risks its very soul when it becomes too closely allied with any political power or philosophy. And yet, we must take the risk, get our hands dirty, and engage.
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Anne Rice and being Christian

Anne Rice's recent declaration that she has given up on Christianity begs the question: What does it mean to call oneself a Christian?
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Deep-water arrogance

BP's problem was not inadequate technologies, but a disturbing lack of humility in the face of complex and powerful forces.
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These honored dead

A time for war and a time for peace — reflections on my recent trip to France.
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Obama's monster

Gather your children and lock your doors. Health care reform is coming!

Flawed justice

The law has little in common with real justice, and frequently attempts to excise the malignancy of evil with a machete instead of a scalpel.
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Procrustean health care

If we could only get rid of all those sick people, we could really streamline health care!
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The experiment continues

Reflections on America's Independence Day.
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Confessing our national guilt

When a nation sins, how should it repent and attempt to heal the wounds of the past? Australia's National Sorry Day gives us a useful model.
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The specter of change

There are lots of people and circumstances I'd nominate for change, but God only seems interested in changing me!
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The politics of beauty

When a beauty pageant turns into one of those 'ah-hah' cultural moments.
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One small breath for mankind

Now that breathing has been shown to contribute to global warming, do we just hold our breath? AnotherThink Industries, LLC, has a better way.
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Redeeming America

With a strong majority in Washington, liberals have embarked on a quixotic mission to heal America's ills. Can they succeed?
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William Saletan on the stem cell debate

William Saletan voices concerns about the President's order to open up embryonic stem cell research.
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Fine young cannibals

Yes, we can. That was the mantra of the Obama candidacy, and so far, the guiding principle of his young administration. Yes we can farm human embryos for adult spare parts. Yes we can. Yes we can. But no, we shouldn't.
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These morally hazardous times

In a time of economic crisis, with Congress spending money on every dubious scheme it can think of, the best thing we can do is to pray for our leaders and our neighbors.
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Street dreams

The trouble with raising expectations high is that people might just take you seriously.
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Christianity and racial politics

At a time when America should be proud of the achievement of a certain black man, the politics of race threatens to incite us to war. Whatever the outcome on Nov. 4, it will be up to black and white Christians to set an example, putting aside our political differences to embrace each other at the foot of the cross.

Moral politics is no oxymoron

With every election cycle, we can choose to make this broken political system a little bit better, or a little worse.
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Experience is not enough

With all the recent political talk about the importance of experience, doesn't it seem ironic that Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and so many other Wall Street juggernauts have been sailed into the rocks by some of our nation's most highly experienced corporate managers? Am I missing something?
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Political psychosis

Is a new ad by the McCain campaign meant to strike fear in the hearts of evangelicals?
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What are you worth?

The Judeo-Christian concept of human worth is that we are God's priceless, crowning act of creation. The US Environmental Protection Agency takes a more utilitarian view, valuing human beings at $7.22 million each. So, which is it? Are we priceless, or are we mere commodities, stamped with a price tag like everything else?
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Faith thrives in America

How healthy is religious faith in the United States? According to this new study by the Pew Forum, it's thriving.
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Under the influence of radicalism

We borrow everything we believe from someone else. All of us are persuaded by the words and actions of others, and once we are persuaded, we build our lives around their beliefs. Whose words move you? Whose philosophy guides you?
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Encouraging discouragement

Politics is fueled by discontent, but the governing dynamic of life in Christ is to be gratitude, because God has shown us mercy.
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Mark Daniels on character and hope-shifting

Mark Daniels comments on presidential character and shifting hopes.

The politics of toothaches

Good teeth are one of the differences between the wealthy and the poor. We who can afford modern dentistry rarely give our teeth much thought, while the poor seem to think of little else.
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Time for change?

"I'm for change" has become the rallying cry of the front runners in this year's election. Personally, I don't much like change, but the core of Jesus' message — his Good News and his New Covenant — was that it was time to change how we relate to God, and each other.
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Candidates speak out on waterboarding

As a public service, I offer these quotations from two presidential candidates explaining their positions on waterboarding.
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Emmanuel in Iowa

Why Emmanuel, and what does it look like in the wintry, political battlefields of Iowa?
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Who's in charge?

The dilemma for Christian political candidates is, where should their loyalties lie?
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Romney and Mormonism on the dock

Evangelicals have put Mitt Romney and Mormonism on the defensive. That can't be a good thing for religious liberty.
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How would Jesus vote?

Inquiring minds want to know, "What would Jesus do about... ethanol subsidies?"
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Good sources of info on the candidates

Two good sources of information on the candidates' views on religious and social issues.
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The world has changed

Researchers discover a way to turn ordinary human skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells.
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Soccer, football and politics

Soccer, football and life.
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A call for civility

Mark Daniels considers the growing lack of civility in American politics.

Barack Obama talks about faith

In a recent speech before a convention of the United Church of Christ, Senator Barack Obama had some impressive things to say about his Christian faith and how it informs his politics.
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Decision time in Iraq

This is no time to abandon the Iraqis.
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Death and taxes

Think Google Earth meets the US Federal Budget and you'll begin to understand what Jesse Bachman's "Death and Taxes" website is all about.
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9/11: Lessons unlearned

The most vital post-9/11 task in America today is to rebuild our national unity against an enemy who would deny us freedom.
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Christians and politics

Two new websites encourage political conversations between people of faith.

Abortion's dirty little secret

There are some things you just don't talk about: abortion-related health risks to women is one of them.

A Muslim response to London

Saying "No to Terrorism."

It's not just about Iraq

There is a civil war raging within Islam against a more moderate, progressive, western-friendly approach to faith.
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If I were the King of the forest...

An exercise in impolitic politics.
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Peggy Noonan: I do not understand...

How can some people be so passionate about saving whales and so insistent that a young woman must be starved to death?
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Congress ready to intervene for Terri

Congress is nearing agreement on legislation that would rescue Terri Schiavo from forced starvation.

Terri Schiavo's deadline

Terri Schiavo update from Get Religion.
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Religion and the courts

The Supreme Court weighs in on the separation of church and state.

Terri Schiavo

The killing of Terri Schiavo.
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Court answers prayers of Darwin faithful

In a victory for Scientific Fundamentalists, a judge requires stickers calling evolution a "theory, not a fact" to be removed from Georgia textbooks.
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Puritanism reloaded

Americanism is a religious faith, evangelical and universal to the core. Little wonder that we make the rest of the world nervous.
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The "new" internationalists

Comments on a GetReligion post about Sen. Sam Brownback.

Getting faith out of politics

Religious faith is fundamental to who we are as human beings, and to the culture we live in.
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The politics of power

The Democratic party, while chastising conservatives for their hawkish tendency to drop bombs on dictators and, collaterally, children, is meanwhile waging a much deadlier war on the children themselves.
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The homily from hell

Get Religion's Doug LeBlanc imagines a different sort of memorial for Ronald Reagan.

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