Posts Tagged ‘ heaven ’

HuffPost: Justus Baird’s advice to Rick Santorum draws on American Grace

March 22, 2012
By tomsander

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Here’s Rabbi Justus Baird’s unsolicited advice to Rick Santorum (kibbutzing) on his campaign strategy in the Huffington Post. Bolded items drawn from American Grace:

Excerpt: I know you’re crazy-campaign-busy…..News about your recent campaign event in Greenwell Springs, La., inspired me to…

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Washington Post review of American Grace

December 13, 2010
By tomsander

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Excerpt of Washington Post review of American Grace:

Even as a religion reporter, I was surprised by some of the findings in this hefty new book about American religion by political scientists …

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: American Grace likely to be standard work on religion for a long time

November 1, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt:

The early settlement by Puritans means the original dominant religion was, of course, Protestant. The Constitution excludes the establishment of a national ecclesiastical authority, but the culture was unquestionably built on a mixture of Anglican tradition and, more turbulently,…

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Putnam interview on American Grace with Religion News Service

October 14, 2010
By tomsander

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Excerpt:

Putnam is concerned, however, that many Americans don’t share his fluid comfort among believers and non-believers. Instead, they fear people unlike themselves, often out of ignorance.

“People who are really secular and don’t really know much…

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Dave Campbell discusses "A New Kind of Christianity"

March 31, 2010
By tomsander

American Grace co-author Dave Campbell was recently interviewed by NPR’s Barbara Bradley Hagerty about Brian McLaren’s new book A New Kind of Christianity. McLaren rejects the old view that he was brought up with of “a God who needs…

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