Many in the Republican Party want public policy that is explicitly tied to fundamentalist Judeo-Christian religious beliefs. But they don’t even practice what they preach.
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How did we get here? A call for evangelical reckoning on Trump
Ed Stetzer, head of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, is concerned that many evangelicals have lost their way and their moral bearings during the last few years.
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Cyrus Habib: Why I am giving up elected office and joining the Jesuits
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Pope Francis: Donald Trump “not Christian” if he wants to wall off Mexico from United States
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian… I say only that this man
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Right wing militiamen plan to bring guns to mosques around nation in ‘global’ protest of Islam “The perfect storm of Islamophobia cresting around the nation
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Francis: A pastoral pope, slipping conservatives’ grasp
Francis: A pastoral pope, slipping conservatives’ grasp “Francis, a Jesuit priest and master politician who defies, and despises, narrow interpretations, seemed to be once again
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Watch Pope Francis’ historic address to a joint session of Congress
This morning, Pope Francis became the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to address a joint session of the United States Congress. In his beautifully framed speech, firmly rooted in humanity’s universal progressive values, he urged Congress to act to address income inequality, the climate crisis, and immigration. He also called for the abolition of the death penalty.
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Watch the White House State Arrival Ceremony for Pope Francis
Watch the White House State Arrival Ceremony for Pope Francis (with speeches by President Barack Obama and His Holiness Pope Francis)
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For Republicans, Pope Francis’ visit to Congress comes with tensions
For Republicans, Pope Francis’ visit to Congress comes with tensions The New York Times explores the dynamic that will serve as the backdrop to His
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Pope Francis: “Human beings and nature must not be at the service of money”
Human beings and nature must not be at the service of money… Let us say no to an economy of exclusion and inequality, where money
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George Lakoff: Pope Francis’ new encyclical is a model for how progressives should reframe
George Lakoff: Pope Francis’ new encyclical is a model for how progressives should reframe Linguist George Lakoff has posted a must-read discussion of the English
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Hardly a day goes by when Pope Francis fails to remind us that he truly is the people’s pope. In this video, the Holy Father
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