Pat Robertson: Haitians’ pact with devil caused earthquake
Christian right activist Pat Robertson is at it again. On his 700 Club show Wednesday he said the Haitians’ earthquake Pat Robertson and past disasters are due to a pact with the devil in the...
View ArticleSarah Palin: Fox News’ new televangelist?
Sarah Palin’s new stint as a contributor to Fox News has Sarah Posner, Pastor Palin? author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters,” wondering if the former...
View ArticleEvangelical leader praises health care reform
In my Pulpit column posted on gazette.com Saturday, and to be in print in Sunday’s Gazette, I write about the significance of Christian organizations’ work in helping get U.S. health care legislation...
View ArticleRekers resigns from NARTH, ramifications of his fall become political
The fallout continues involving George Rekers, who, it was revealed last week, took a 10-day European vacation with a gay escort. Today Rekers resigned his position as board member of the National...
View ArticleHaggard: Mosque issue overblown
Services at Ted Haggard’s St. James Church, held at the Pikes Peak Center downtown, are becoming regular stops for religion writers across the nation, including from the Wall Street Journal and the...
View ArticleConservative Christian leader: “We have no political home”
Click here to view the embedded video. The Republican Tea Party has proven quite effective in gaining followers and getting candidates into the mid-term elections. They’ve done it by complaining about...
View ArticleDoes Glenn Beck have the fruits to lead the Christan right?
Yes, I know. Television host Glenn Beck is a Mormon, so he can’t lead the Christian right, made up of conservative evangelicals who don’t believe Mormons are Christians. Glenn Beck Or so goes...
View ArticleFocus leader Jim Daly makes Newsweek’s top Christian-right leader list
The Christian right is changing. James Dobson, Pat Robertson and others are fading into the sunset, while new ones are taking their places with a tweaked message that is generally softer, gentler,...
View ArticleGlenn Beck’s Muslim comment challenged by Muslim scholar
Last Monday, Glenn Beck, the rising religious voice of American conservatism, said 10 percent of Muslims are terrorist. Usually such talk is accepted by Muslim haters and ignored by the intellectual...
View ArticleApple rejects Christian right iPhone app as “offensive to large groups”
Apple Inc. has twice rejected an iPhone and iPad app by the Christian right. The corporation says it’s because the app is “offensive to large groups of people,” according to a news release. The app in...
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