Untitled Document We’re in the middle of the most Bible-toting, Scripture-quoting presidential campaign in recent memory. So where are the Christians — the evangelical, deeply conservative Christians, that is, who so famously propelled George W. Bush into office? The nation’s finally talking about Jesus, and they’re missing it? Not exactly. Some are still home sulking: They […]
Jeannette Batz Cooperman
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God on their side
If God is indeed up there — on a throne, in the clouds — then what He’s watching is a wildly unbalanced game of Red Rover. The exuberant kids have all run to one side. The quiet kids, who used to have a pretty good team, are drifting away one by one. And the cool […]
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Abraham, Martin, and the little corporal
When the Abraham Lincoln Association invited Dr. Martin E. Marty to speak at their annual banquet on Feb. 12, they tied no strings to his invitation. Marty, a distinguished scholar of American religion and history at the University of Chicago, didn’t even have to mention Lincoln. But he wanted to. When, as a National Humanities […]
