Publication Category: Religious Right

Just last year at a Republican state convention in Arizona, new Christian rightists managed to pass a floor resolution declaring that the U.S. is “a Christian nation” and that the U.S. Constitution created “a republic based upon the absolute laws of the Bible, not a democracy.” Elsewhere, Joseph Morecraft, pastor of Chalcedon Presbyterian Church just …

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When I was in Seminary in the 1960’s studying with Paul Tillich and Harvey Cox — one was at the end of a career and the other at the beginning– and reading the works of Bishop John A. T. Robinson and others, we talked a lot about the death of God and the secular city …

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