Rick Warren Makes Progressives Angry
By Jamelle Bouie - Dec 18th, 2008 at 5:30 pmSam Stein at the Huffington Post writes that various secular and religious progressive leaders are disappointed with Obama’s decision to have Rick Warren give the…
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No Big Surprises Here
By Nick Sifuentes - Dec 18th, 2008 at 10:15 amRick Warren
The lefty blogosphere and gay rights advocates are furious at Obama’s selection of Rick Warren as the preacher who will deliver the invocation…
James Dobson: WWJF?
By Kay Steiger - Nov 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pmThis is a pretty funny video making fun of the fact that Focus on the Family is laying off 200 employees after sinking $500,000 into…
Assigning Blame
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 20th, 2008 at 2:18 pmOn the debate over which faction is to blame for the GOP’s current electoral woes (intensified somewhat by Kathleen Parker’s recent, kind of inflammatory, column),…
Focus on the Family Lays Off Employees
By Kay Steiger - Nov 19th, 2008 at 3:23 pmIt seems that James Dobson’s organization, Focus on the Family, is laying off more than 200 people–about 20 percent of the organization–after the organization sank…
Don’t Tear Down This Wall
By Nick Sifuentes - Aug 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 amThe Pew Forum has a new poll out showing a significant shift in voter preference for religion’s role in politics. For the first time in…
Rick Warren: An Evangelical that Progressives Can (Maybe) Be Okay With
By Saxon Baird - Aug 19th, 2008 at 4:53 pmOver the last two weeks a number of publications have taken up the task at examining the anomaly that is evangelical pastor Rick Warren, who…
Did the California Courts Really Ignore the Will of the Voters?
By Nick Sifuentes - Jun 18th, 2008 at 11:45 amSo the gays are getting married again out in California. Shh. Listen. Do you hear that? That’s the sound of California not falling off into…
Why Abstinence-Plus Doesn’t Work
By Haley Swenson - Jun 11th, 2008 at 12:00 pmWe hear a lot about the differences between abstinence-only sex education and comprehensive sex education, but not about a supposed middle ground called abstinence-plus, a…
Focus on All Families
By L. Russell Allen - Jun 5th, 2008 at 4:31 pm(Courtesy Focus on the Family)
If you’re not in the know, Focus on the Family is a Christian right organization most famous for its crusades…
Study Will Shed Much-Needed Light on Evangelicals
By Loryn Wilson - Jun 4th, 2008 at 8:00 pmWhen you think “Christian” or “evangelical,” the first image that pops into your mind may be of a Bible-thumping, flag-waving Southerner who attends purity balls…
