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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.
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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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Barack Obama has resigned from Trinity UCC, which played a central role in so many milestone events of Obama’s life: his coming to Christianity, his start as a community organizer–and, by extension, a politician–his ability to finally identify comfortably as an African American after being raised by a white mother, not to mention his marriage and the baptisms of his two daughters. The move comes after a guest sermon by Rev. Michael Pfleger at Trinity UCC put the church back on front pages of newspapers, weeks after Rev. Jeremiah Wright had done so (again). As surprised as God-o-Meter was by the announcement, after a third round of national controversy at Trinity UCC’s hands, how must choice did Obama really have?
posted June 1, 2008 at 9:57 am
It is really sad that the media looks at and looks for scandal. Why have they not said what the church’s beliefs are. Are they Christian (obviously the name implies that), but do they follow Christ? Do they support marriage, do they oppose pornography and drug use and violence and abortion? No one is talking about that!
posted June 1, 2008 at 10:39 am
his ability to finally identify comfortably as an African American after being raised by a white mother, not to mention his marriage and the baptisms of his two daughters.
As though there’s something inadequate and shameful about his white heritage…
posted June 1, 2008 at 11:00 am
Obama did not have a choice. The media reported the news and the news was not good for the church that Obama loved. It was for the good of the Trinity UCC as well as the future of his campaigne that Obama had to resign his membership.
It’s hard to leave a church that you love and the ome that led you to Faith, but sometimes it has to be done. I know because I had to do it.
I wish that people stop thinking of Obama as “Black” and think of him as a man. After all, he;s just as much “White” as he is “Black” and that doesn’t make any better or less qualifird to lead our country.
I for one am greatful that he had the strength to leave Trinity and U think God-O-Meter is wrong to lower his rating, you should have raised it.
posted June 1, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Ingrid,
Yes, Trinity United Church of Christ does indeed support marriage- for loving, caring, committed heterosexual AND homosexual couples.