Not true historically that God was a Democrat or a Republican. We’ve lived through an unusual period where there was too close of an association of politics and religion. And political leaders and religious leaders have paid a price…
“The so called culture war – the notion that Americans are deeply divided and hate each other across religious lines – is a vast exaggeration and a kind of a fun-house mirror that suggests that we are in two…
Glenn Beck at Lincoln Memorial-photo from Wikimedia Commons
The Economist’s story, explains how US evangelicals, in a troubled time are looking for a more charismatic and likable leader than Glenn Beck. Among the troubling evidence for evangelicals are American…
Robert Putnam, co-author of American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, recently spoke with Houston Chronicle reporter Jeannie Kever, and among other things voiced his surprise with Americans’ tolerance of those with different religious…
According to Macleans review, Putnam and Campbell in American Grace “get where they’re going all right, and they turn up a lot of fascinating information about America’s ever-evolving religious life along the way.”
Robert Wright in a NY Times Op-Ed discusses whether the significant rise of tolerance for gays in the US over the last generation is a road map for Muslims. Excerpt:
