Politics

For Southern Baptists and GOP, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

This is an interesting, secular take on politics and the pulpit in American life from Foreign Affairs: Exactly how does religion operate in U.S. politics? What came before and after the mid-twentieth-century period? And what’s likely to happen next in American religious politics?

Carson ...was a featured speaker at the official National Day of Prayer gathering in Washington, D.C.

"[W]hite evangelicals are by far the category least involved in political activism in comparison with Catholics, black Protestants, moderate and liberal “mainline” Protestants and non-Christian groups." GetReligion

Tennessee’s Bible bill cleared another hurdle Thursday when it passed the House Calendar and Rules committee. HB 615, which has 19 co-signers, is now scheduled for a debate in the full house on Tuesday.

Full text TN HB 615

Ted Cruz in NYC

"Both science & my faith dictate my belief that we are created by God. I believe faith & science are compatible, & go hand in hand"  CPost

"[T]the theory of evolution continues to challenge presidential aspirants."