Posts Tagged ‘ interfaith ’

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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Robert Putnam discusses American Grace on “Forum Truth”

December 3, 2010
By tomsander

“Historically, only a small percentage of Americans (5-7%) when you asked them whether they are Protestant or Catholic or whatever, said they had no religion at all; we call them the ‘nones’… Over the last 20 years, that figure…

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Peter Berger on American Grace’s implications for valuable civil religion

December 1, 2010
By tomsander

Excerpt:

A few days before Thanksgiving The New York Times carried a brief report about a pre-holiday interfaith breakfast in Westchester County, the affluent suburban area just north of New York City. It was convened by Rabbi Mark…

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Christian Science Monitor: American Grace a ‘treasure trove’ of religious data

November 15, 2010
By tomsander

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Excerpt:

There actually is a “God gap” in present-day American politics, the authors agree: “The Republicans have forged a coalition of the religious … issues like abortion and same-sex marriage…

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Bill Galston: American Grace “path-breaking” contribution to our religious understanding

November 1, 2010
By tomsander

William Galston of the Brookings Institution, a former policy advisor to President Clinton and an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns, and elections, writes about American Grace in the October 22, 2010 issue of Commonweal.

Galston calls American Grace…

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What Americans Need to Know About Religion (Huffington Post)

October 6, 2010
By tomsander

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Diane Winston, discussing the recent Pew survey on religious literacy writes:

The focus on factoids obscures a central challenge of the 21st century: negotiating the absolute conflict of multiple religious absolutes.

That’s a hard lesson for…

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