There are many important implications to the California marriage ruling, but my particular concern is with the implications of this…
Marriage as a neo-liberal wolf
American politics
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
The recent California court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage has elicited a new round of warnings about the threats…
Misrepresenting Islam
Suggestions that Presidential candidate Barack Obama was a Muslim seemed to have subsided when his controversial pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright,…
Secular imperatives?
Calls for the embrace (or for that matter rejection) of secularism are premised on a putative opposition between secular and…
Obama’s reductionist moment
In his ill-chosen remarks to an April 6, 2008 San Francisco fundraiser, Barack Obama showed the danger bad social science…
“Trust me”
On Sunday evening at Messiah College, the two contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination agreed to talk in a “deeply…
The confession forum
A funny thing happened on the way to last Sunday’s Compassion Forum: the politics of religion gave way to the…
Class, nation and covenant
Over the past few days, Barack Obama's "More Perfect Union" speech has been accessed millions of times on YouTube and…
Who speaks for Islam?
The politicization of scholars, experts and media commentators post 9/11 has created a minefield for policymakers and the general public.…
The evangelical vote
Who are evangelical voters supporting in the 2008 primary season? The facile assumption is to look for them in the…