In the Muslim world, as in Europe and much of the world, Obama is welcomed as an internationalist president.
An internationalist president
Barack Obama
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 global evangelical
Evangelicals, contra their isolationist or xenophobic image, have become a well-traveled group, going to places usually reserved for anthropologists and…
The Dobson/Obama Rorschach test
For years Barack Obama has courted the support of evangelicals. Way back in 2006, Obama served as the keynote speaker…
The preacher and the politician
The recent formal departure of Senator Barack Obama from Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago will no doubt resurface…
Misrepresenting Islam
Suggestions that Presidential candidate Barack Obama was a Muslim seemed to have subsided when his controversial pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright,…
Obama, Wright, and Trinity
The East Coast media establishment---both "conservatives" and "liberals"---continue to ask the same question about Senator Barack Obama: why did he…
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…
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…