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'People of Faith Challenge Democrats'
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:17pm | Type: Blog

On Monday, I <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/08/faith-at-the-conventions-by-ji.html">wrote </a>that one of the things I would be looking for at the political conventi ...

Bishop Charles Blake's Remarks at DNC Interfaith Service
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:17pm | Type: Blog

Excerpt from Bishop Charles Blake&rsquo;s remarks at the Interfaith Forum, Sunday, August 24, 2008, Denver, Colorado:</p> Excerpt from Bishop Charles Blake’s remarks at ...

Response to Readers
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<p>I've been reading through the extensive comments on my <a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/08/a-step-forward-on-abortion-by.html">blog post</a> on abortion ...

Wedge Issues (Part 2)
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

[...<a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/godspolitics/2008/08/wedge-issues-part-1-by-romal-t.html">continued from part 1</a>]</p> [... continued from pa ...

Wedge Issues (Part 1)
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

As we draw closer to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/21/us/politics/21church.html">candidate forum at Saddleback Church</a>, I've had several conversations with clergy on ...

Pro-Life Democrats Call for an Abortion Reduction Plank
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<p align="left">As a pro-life Democrat, and a member of the party's platform committee I will be pressing for the inclusion of an abortion reduction plank in this year's platform. ...

Dobson and Obama: Who is 'Deliberately Distorting'?
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

James Dobson, of Focus on the Family Action, and his senior vice president of government and public policy, Tom Minnery, used their "Focus on the Family" radio show to criticize Barack Obama's u ...

Dobson and Obama: Who is 'Deliberately Distorting'?
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

James Dobson, of Focus on the Family Action, and his senior vice president of government and public policy, Tom Minnery, used their "Focus on the Family" radio show to criticize Barack Obama's u ...

Biblical Perspectives on Idolatry, Poverty, Abortion
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 2:18pm | Type: Blog

<em>Beliefnet invited Jim Wallis to participate in a </em><a href="http://blog.beliefnet.com/blogalogue/"><em>"blogalogue"</em></a><em> with David ...

Juno: A Truly Pro-Life Film
Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog

<p>Last night I finally saw Juno, Roger Ebert's favorite film of 2007 and recipient of four Oscar nominations, which has as its center the story of an unplanned pregnancy and the people affected by ...

Thou shalt not
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Rose Marie Berger Covenants always have social and political implications. The season of Pentecost, according ...

No Middle Ground
Originally Posted: 03/03/2011 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Don Johnson [Regarding “Abortion: A Way Forward,” by Amy Sullivan, April 2006], I wish there was a “middle ground” to be found on all issu ...

Abortion: A Way Forward
Originally Posted: 03/21/2013 - 3:22pm | Type: Magazine Article

Amy Sullivan The politics of abortion has been dominated by extreme views on either side, but now voters are looking for solutions, not sl ...

Redefining The Camps
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:22pm | Type: Magazine Article

Frederica Mathewes-Green 'How many of you are both pro-life and against the death penalty?' On a Nov ...

No Place to Stand
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:00pm | Type: Magazine Article

Heidi Schlumpf When you're Christian, progressive, and "pro-life," voting your conscience is often easier said than done. ...

Pro-Life Democrats?
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:15pm | Type: Magazine Article

Jim Wallis There are millions of votes at stake in this liberal miscalculation. The meeting room w ...

Open Letter to Dennis Kucinich
Originally Posted: 04/06/2011 - 7:25am | Type: Magazine Article

Danny Duncan Collum A political realignment in this country isn't possible until we heal the cultural breach that afflicts us. ...

A Civil Discourse
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter Seeking common ground on abortion clinic activism. Marilyn Cohen is director of the Emma Goldman ...

Finding Common Ground
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 3:25pm | Type: Magazine Article

Naomi Wolf Frederica Mathewes-Green Getting to Disagreement. Dialogue that has an impa ...

Outrage Over the Abortion Veto
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:39pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter  When President Clinton vetoed a bill this spring that would have banned a specific method of late-term abortion, many peopl ...

Women and Children First
Originally Posted: 03/21/2013 - 1:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Julie Polter Developing a common agenda to make abortion rare. In a room, a waiting room, sits a woman. She m ...

A Lesson in Listening
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:37pm | Type: Magazine Article

Deanna Wylie Mayer "A group of women who have had abortions will be meeting" read the sign on the women's room wall. Immed ...

When Anti-Abortion Is Not Pro-Life
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:38pm | Type: Magazine Article

Shelley Douglass How people responded to the December 30 murders of abortion clinic workers in Massachusetts depended in large part on th ...

Pro-Life, Pro-Choice: Can We Talk?
Originally Posted: 03/22/2013 - 4:24pm | Type: Magazine Article

Frederica Matthewes-Green For years I scoffed at the idea of violence outside abortion clinics. Sure, plenty of violence was going on ins ...