Dr. James Dobson, founder of the influential conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, once said he would not vote for Senator John McCain “under any circumstances.” McCain, he has said, is too liberal the issues Dobson cares most about, […]
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekThe funny thing about faith-based mutual funds is, well, that there’s anything called a faith-based mutual fund. For one thing, Scripture is full of exhortations against accumulating wealth. The New Testament, especially, repeatedly reminds followers of Christ that earthly wealth
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekThe leaders of the religious right don’t have great affection for John McCain. They think he’s too moderate on immigration, embryonic-stem-cell research and campaign-finance reform, and they think he doesn’t do enough to promote his pro-life positions.
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekBarack Obama talked to NEWSWEEK’s Lisa Miller and Richard Wolffe about how faith plays into his everyday life. Excerpts:
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekSo much has been made about Barack Obama’s religion. But what does he believe, and how did he arrive at those beliefs? In 1981 Barack Obama was 20 years old, a Columbia University student in search of the meaning
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NewsweekThe question comes off like an old “Monty Python” gag. What musical group in Britain is more popular than Paul Simon or the Ting Tings? The Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz. Several weeks ago, a group of Cistercian monks who live
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekWhile in the secular world some colleges are debating whether to designate special restrooms for transgendered students, Christian colleges are pondering whether to allow gay students to organize at all. Andy Swenson is an unlikely revolutionary. Raised in a conservative
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekJerry 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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Newsweek, ReligionPoliticians 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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