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James Dobson: WWJF?

By Kay Steiger - Nov 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

This 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 pm

On 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 pm

It 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 am

The 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 pm

Over 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 am

So 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 pm

We 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 pm

When 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…