Politics

“The American Charter Project (ACP) sponsored the program in an effort to offer guidance on how to overcome polarization in the United States along ideological and religious divides. ACP will release the “American Charter of Freedom of Religion and Conscience” later this year as part of its effort.” BPNews

Roger Olson: [F]undamentalism has always been evangelical Christianity’s “far right wing”—theologically. However, neither evangelicalism nor fundamentalism are political identities; this confusion is the creation of certain sociologists of religion and the media.

“The American Culture & Faith Institute has compiled a list of the top 20 most effective organizations making a difference in culture, based on a survey among Christian conservatives.” CPost

Doug Wilson: So the Democrats are all about accepting the results of the election. Unless they lose, and they think that the shameless media is willing to be just as shameless as they are. Then they do … well, what they are currently doing.

Doug Wilson: I do have to say that I am enjoying the [presidential] transition way more than I thought I would be enjoying it. And here are some of the reasons why, along with some free observations here and there.

Doug Wilson: For my money, Comey has been forced into this position by disgusted agents who threatened to resign en masse, and who threatened to go public with everything they knew, which is no doubt significant… . The general public already knows the vast extent of the Clinton corruptions, rivaling the acreage of a sewage lagoon built to service Calcutta.

“It turns out that the conservative base is not quite as conservative as we thought, and the Evangelical base isn’t as evangelical as we hoped… . They occupy the same moral terrain as Bill Clinton’s most stalwart defenders in the 1990s, revealing themselves as more concerned with power and access than with character and principle.” David French

Conservative Activist Phyllis Schlafly Dead At 92

“Two-thirds of Americans (64%) say they had at least three conversations about politics in the last month… . By contrast, fewer than half (44%) had three or more spiritual conversations in the same time frame.” CT