Citizens responding to the current electoral climate of Christian agonistics – if they care at all about the significance and…
Good ol’ time American politics?
American politics
The makings of a pastoral presidency?
It is impossible to overstate the significance of the local church pastor in the lives of conservative Protestants. Even in…
Grasping King’s mantle
One of the most important days in the Democratic Party’s presidential contest arrives today. It involves neither a caucus nor…
It’s the economy and the culture stupid!
I agree with Michael Lindsay that Mike Huckabee exhibits many of the qualities of a “cosmopolitan” evangelical. And yet it…
Beating radical Islam
“People of faith want a candidate who can beat radical Islam.” So claimed Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, in a statement…
A new kind of evangelical
Mike Huckabee’s early success in the primary season shows that evangelicals have political muscles to flex in the post-George W.…
Practicing sex, practicing democracy
Why is it that sex is such a central part of American political life anyway? Why, when The New York…
Marriage plots
Despite the putative separation of church and state, one of the major places in the U.S. where religion and the…
After Bhutto
The world will long remember Benazir Bhutto as a modern Muslim woman who served two terms as Pakistan’s first woman…
The best of all possible worlds
In a recent conversation regarding the effects of the Cold War, in particular the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the…