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The story of evangelical antipathy to Mitt Romney, Mormon has faded over the past few weeks with the emergence of a sense that Romney's opposition is really a broad Conservative Coalition. Thus, recent PPP state polls show that Tea Partiers, the "very conservative," and evangelicals prefer Rick Santorum to Romney by roughly the same margins.
Take yesterday's Washington State surve...
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Over at TPM, Sahil Kapur points out that there's a back story to Rick Santorum's claim that President Obama's "phony theology" has something to do with his attachment to "radical environmentalists." A couple of weeks ago, Santorum had this to say at the Colorado Energy Summit:
“We were put...
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Rick Santorum stirred up a little faith-based tempest over the weekend when he appeared before the Ohio Christian Alliance on Saturday and declared that President Obama's agenda is "not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phony ideal. Some...
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As noted in this space, some Catholic thinkers have been favoring us with some serious theologizing as they make their respective cases for how to respond to the Obama Administration's contraception coverage mandate. And then there's the Most Rev. William E. Lori, Bishop of Bridgeport, CT. Yest...
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I realize I may be the only Jew in America who feels this way, but if the Mormons want to perform provisional proxy baptism ceremonies for my dead forebears, abi gezunt. I write this on the first Yahrzeit of my mother, may she rest in peace. I'm reasonably confident that should a couple of LDS...
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I guess it's pretty improbable for an Asian-American kid cut by two NBA teams to come off the dreary bench of the New York Knicks and push the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue out of the athletic limelight. (Sorry, Kate.) The real miracle is that the guy's an evangelical from Harvard, which Am...
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If it's done nothing else, the Great Contraception Coverage Mandate Brouhaha (GCCMB) has afforded Catholic Church-watchers an excellent opportunity to explore the fault lines within America's largest religious body, and not only between the contraception-embracing laity and the contraception-re...
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The following comes from a longtime priest in the archdiocese of Milwaukee (links added):
[Y]ou can guess why I am contacting you--this flare-up over contraception. I'm trying to look beyond the hyper-ventilating about "religious liberty" (poor Courtney Murray would turn over in his grave to...
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Lest there be any doubt that Charles Krauthammer has lost his brain, consider today's column. It's devoted mostly to savaging President Obama as anti-religious for upholding the HHS contraceptive coverage mandate (today's accommodation of which to religious concerns will be taken up in this spa...
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Politico's inside story of the White House decision to keep the HHS contraception coverage mandate intact has Barack Obama coming down on the side of the mandate "by personal conviction," making "the passionate case that several million women--many neither Catholic nor rich enough to pay $60 a...
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In the year 355, as Christianity was in the process of becoming the official religion of the Roman Empire, the imperial brothers Constans and Constantius II issued an edict prohibiting bishops from being haled into civil court ("lest there should be an unrestrained opportunity for fanatical...
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Mark Silk is Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College and director of the college's Program on Public Values. He joined Trinity College after working as a reporter, editorial writer and columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He writes on news media coverage of religious subject matter.
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