How did the same people who elected Barack Obama President last Tuesday vote to pass Proposition 8 in California, the…
The blame game
American politics
The justice we need
The 2008 election provides a significant occasion to rethink our assumptions about justice and politics---concepts we rarely link together, least…
The cooling embers
Politics is not reducible to elections, of course. Yet these contests---particularly the quadrennial spectacle that is a Presidential race---usually conclude…
Magic, comedy and civic religion
Barack Obama's victory needs to be recognized and celebrated---not simply recognized for the fact that he won, but recognized by…
A public theologian
Americans have elected the most theologically astute president since Jimmy Carter.
An internationalist president
In the Muslim world, as in Europe and much of the world, Obama is welcomed as an internationalist president.
The magic ballot
I regret that we are forced to catch the special aura of this election without a deep and serious space…
Changing of the guard
In the wake of the presidential election, who now speaks for American evangelicals?
The evangelical vote in question
The question used to identify evangelicals in today's exit polls is "Would you describe yourself as a born-again or evangelical…
Presidential drinking games, and other secular devotions
I watched the last presidential debate in a crowded Manhattan restaurant with large-screen TVs and surround sound. By the end…