Erin Wilson on U.S presidents and religious rhetoric
Scholar Erin K Wilson was intrigued to read a comment from an historian that Western societies see themselves as secular, even if they contain large minorities who are actively religious, while Muslim...
View ArticleU.S. Catholic bishops fight Obama’s Affordable Care Act
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that President Obama’s Affordable Care Act for health reform is constitutional but the country’s Catholic bishops remain staunchly opposed. When the president signed...
View ArticlePulpit and Politics, best stories 2012
I worked for years in newsrooms and each December we would produce what we called Year Enders, which summarized the most significant stories that we had covered in the past 12 months. In that...
View ArticleGabrielle Giffords confronts NRA on guns
Has the time finally arrived, after the unspeakable shooting rampage in December 2012 that killed 20 children and six teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, when the United States will finally take action...
View ArticleReconsidering liberal Christianity
I read in the New York Times recently about an increasing attention being paid by American academic researchers to the history of liberal Christianity. The article says that in the U.S. the dominant...
View ArticleReligion and America’s election, Trump doesn’t do Beatitudes
In her nomination speech to the Democratic National Convention in July, former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described her Methodist faith as the foundation of her activism. “[My...
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