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‘If He Were Here, It Would Be Different’
Jerry Falwell’s widow Macel remembers her husband in a new book, and wonders how the religious right is doing without him. When the Rev. Jerry Falwell died a year ago at age 73, his obituaries were like the mixed reviews […]
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His Mobile Ministry: The Houston mega-pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell
Politicians have long sought the counsel of faith leaders. Obama’s got 100 dialing in to pray for him. The Houston mega-pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell—who presided over Jenna Bush’s wedding last month and has offered spiritual counsel to her father—is a Christian […]
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The Milquetoast Manifesto
Though Saddleback’s pastor, Rick Warren, helped draft the document and was rumored to be among the signers, he is not. What if the evangelicals wrote a manifesto and nobody cared? It was supposed to be a decisive document, a credo […]
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The House That Wright Built
It’s just a church. It’s a two-story yellow-brick building in a crummy but not terrible Chicago neighborhood. There’s red wall-to-wall carpet throughout, and high behind the altar are two modest stained-glass windows. There are three services on Sunday and Bible […]
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✴︎ Religion
Everything Old Is New Again
It should come as no surprise that N. T. Wright believes that the resurrection really happened. As the Anglican bishop of Durham, a commitment to the idea of a risen Jesus would seem to be part of the job description. […]
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An Algorithm for Mr. Right
Let’s say you want to get married and you’re thinking of joining an Internet dating site. Wouldn’t you want that site to be just a little bit picky? Wouldn’t you want it to eliminate the creepy already-marrieds
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The Preacher Speaks
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is a man of many faces. He’s an old-school ’70s lefty, a man who preached every Sunday in what the American religion scholar Martin Marty has called “greenish African-American pajamas.” He’s an intellectual, a professor who […]
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✴︎ Religion
Why This Pope Doesn’t Connect
The Rev. Gerald Fogarty decided not to go to the pope’s mass in Washington because he’s busy teaching that day at the University of Virginia. The Rev. John Dufell considered joining him at Yankee Stadium, but he’s got a couple […]
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Is Your Rabbi Hot or Not?
Last spring, NEWSWEEK published a list of the 50 most influential rabbis in America, created and compiled by three nice (and rich and powerful) Jewish media big shots who, it seemed, didn’t have quite enough to do. The aforementioned big […]
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How Would Jesus Choose?
Adam Hamilton does not call himself “pro-choice.” He prefers “pro-life with a heavy heart.” What that means, as he explains in his new book “Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White,” is that he believes abortion should be […]