Norman Lear, creator of the TV classic All in the Family and founder of the liberal group People for the American Way, has a new venture. Born Again American is a movement that seeks to empower working-class Americans, the folks...
You may have seen the billboards along freeways around town: A photo of someone, maybe a celebrity you recognize, maybe not, and the simple message: "I Am Second." As Staff Writer Jessica Meyers explains in a story in this morning's...
James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, made a big to-do out of announcing earlier this year that he'd sit out the election if John McCain were the Republican presidential nominee. Dobson has had a change of heart....
Here's proof that with mere hours to go in the presidential election campaign, reporters haven't quite run out of religion angles to write about: Daniel Burke of Religion News Service explores the question of how American Buddhists are likely to...
Sam Hodges and Staff Writer Mark Norris have a front-page story this morning looking back at the extraordinary role that religion has played in the long presidential campaign. They write: Everything from Mormonism to Pentecostalism to Black Liberation Theology has...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "Obama is radical and he has a shady past, and is the worst possible choice for the man in charge of the welfare of the United States of America! Do not be blinded...
The Washington Post has a story saying this year's Democratic outreach to Catholics tries to dance around the church's adamant opposition to abortion (and Barack Obama's adamant support of a woman's right to choose) by emphasizing other issues. "Rather than...
John McCain and Barack Obama made a joint appearance Thursday night. It was unlike anything we've seen in this campaign. The two were guests at the 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in New York City. The charity...
John McCain hasn't been shy about bringing up Barack Obama's associations with a political fixer (Tony Rezko) and a onetime political radical (William Ayres). But, according to this article from The Washington Post, McCain has steadfastly refused to make Obama's...
"No, ma'am, he's a decent family man, a citizen, who I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues." -- John McCain, responding to a supporter in Minnesota who said she didn't trust Barack Obama because he's an "Arab."...
Over lunch, I was reading Rolling Stone's cover story about John McCain. Titled, "Make-Believe Maverick," the story is a savaging examination of McCain's history. It portrays him as an arrogant, egotistical, pampered, condescending, underachieving son of a powerful Navy family...
A sampling of comments from our readers: "I notice most of the comments criticizing Governot Palin contain spelling and grammar errors. Interesting." -- "Jess" Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES...
Michelle Boorstein of The Washington Post says that in an unprecedented strategy move, the Democrats are running political ads on Christian music stations, trying to woo voters who have long enjoyed "a quiet, monogamous relationship with the Republican Party." Here's...
In yesterday's New York Times, David D. Kirkpatrick looked at how abortion is again dividing Catholic voters -- and at how Catholics could decide the presidential election. Kirkpatrick writes: Once a reliable Democratic voting bloc, Catholics have emerged as a...
This doesn't have much to do with religion, except, I guess, insofar as it has to do with telling the truth. Someone has produced this wicked parody of the infamous "swift boat" ad that caused John Kerry's campaign to start...
Eric Gorski, religion writer for rhe Associated Press, writes that Catholics "are shaping up to be the battleground religious vote of 2008." Polls show that John McCain and Barack Obama are neck and neck among white Catholics. (Hispanic Catholics lean...
"It is sometimes a challenge to get Sen. McCain to open up about his journey.... He's not the type that kind of traditionally wears their faith on their sleeve." -- Nancy Pfotenhauer, senior policy advisor to John McCain's campaign,...
"On several key issues I am in complete disagreement with Sen. Obama. But I am very interested in what he has to say." -- The Rev. Jim Gilbreth, an evangelical pastor in Riverside, Calif., after Barack Obama and John McCain...
Over on Trail Blazers, our politics blog, Senior Political Writer Wayne Slater says Barack Obama's visit this weekend with Rick Warren might not have won the Democratic candidate much support among evangelical voters. Wayne cites a Beliefnet interview in which...
"I'll take a third-class fireman over a first-class arsonist." -- Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention, on why conservative Christians will vote for John McCain over Barack Obama, despite reservations about McCain...
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