At Religion Dispatches, Sarah Posner dismisses the possibility that, with Sarah Palin as its leader, the Christian right could become…
Sarah Palin and the Christian right
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American Jews and Sarah Palin
This month's Commentary features a provocative piece (click on the link and scroll down) by Jennifer Rubin on Jewish reactions…
A tale of two Franks
Franklin Graham and Frank Schaeffer are outspoken sons of famous evangelical leaders. President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, the…
Changing of the guard
In the wake of the presidential election, who now speaks for American evangelicals?
A speck, a fleck, and—voila!—a governor
Clifford Geertz said it first (riffing on Ryle): the difference between twitches and winks could only be accomplished by "sorting…
A tale of two mavericks
Long before field dressing moose and shooting wolves from helicopters became part of American political parlance, a United States senator…
What does Azusa have to do with Washington?
Does a candidate's faith matter? That seems to be one of the more pressing questions being asked in opinion pieces…
Perplexed by Pentecostalism
Lost in the discussion of Sarah Palin's religion is an appreciation for the diversity of American Pentecostalism, past and present.
Talking right, stumbling left
Sarah Palin's popularity and notoriety has many sources, but one source of her Red America popularity has not been sufficiently…