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Closed for the Season
With Election Day finally having come and gone, God-o-Meter is closing up shop till 2012--or at least 2010. Till then, get your faith and politics fix over at Beliefnet editor-in-chief Steve Waldman's blog.
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posted 4:32:33pm Nov. 19, 2008 |
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On The Religious Left, Great Expectations
The first priorities for Barack Obama's administration will be the economy and a variety of foreign policy issues. But the burgeoning religious left, which worked so hard to get Obama elected, expects some movement on its issues, including a robust White House office of faith-based initiatives, pove
posted 1:49:31pm Nov. 07, 2008 |
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Howard Dean's Vindication
God-o-Meter wrote a piece for today's Roll Call on the vindication of Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean's much-derided 50-State Strategy, which is largely about reaching out to the nation's more religious voters in the red states:
Years before Barack Obama showed that a liberal Demo
posted 2:01:06pm Nov. 06, 2008 |
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A Post-Election Chat with Ralph Reed
Amid today's talk that Barack Obama has narrowed the God Gap, God-o-Meter checked in with Ralph Reed, who spearheaded religious outreach for George W. Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns and who pioneered such outreach for Republicans as executive director of the Christian Coalition.
What surprised you i
posted 3:09:07pm Nov. 05, 2008 |
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More Innacurate Faith Storylines From the Media
God-o-Meter is struck by the number of faith-based storylines the news media appear to have gotten dead wrong this year.
One was the line that Obama was poised to make big gains among white votes, especially evangelicals, who were undergoing a generational shift in their political thinking and reexa
posted 11:53:20am Nov. 05, 2008 |
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posted October 5, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I dont know how Richardson is 2 on here. In the last Debate with Tim Russert He could not name a Bible verse,when asked what Bible verse do they live by.
posted November 14, 2007 at 2:40 am
Catholics probably have the least theologically sophisticated laity in Christianity. They’re taught more from church catechism than from the bible. I grew up with a Catholic education that started before Vatican II and ended after. Throughout, all of our religious instruction was from catechism and church dictrine. The bible was discussed but NEVER actually read in our classes. It doesn;t surprise me that Richardson can’t name a single verse. I find that, since leaving both Catholicism and Christianity, I now know more about the bible than I did when I was still in the church.
posted November 14, 2007 at 2:42 am
Sorry for the typo – that should have been “doctrine”.
posted December 30, 2007 at 1:00 am
I am happy to see Bill Richardson is still hanging in there. He is my choice for candidate. He has experience in government in Wash.D.C. and as governor of New Mexico. He has the wisdom to know we should withdraw from Iraq and the foreign policy experience to know best how to do that. This is the first that I’ve heard about his spiritual leanings and this makes him all the more the best choice in my opinion.
posted January 10, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I still haven’t made up my mind, but as a Evangelical mish-mash Christian, I know that Catholics know more about the Social doctrine of Christ than most of my colleagues. I’m leaning toward Richardson and think that he should be appointed to a cabinet post by whom ever wins the General election.