amconmag.com - 11/18/2008
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Joe Carter, Freddie de Boer, Andrew Sullivan and Rod Dreher have all commented on Obama's Christianity. Since this is ground I have covered a little before, I thought I might add a few points. Rod and Carter are correct that by any formal, credal standard of traditional Christianity ...
culture11.com - 11/16/2008
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culture11.com —
In 2004, Obama gave an interview to Chicago
Sun Times columnist Cathleen Falsani in which he talks
in detail about his faith. The full transcript had never been published in a major publication until yesterday when Beliefnet reprinted it in its ...
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The Faith of Obama
weeklystandard.com - 11/19/2008
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weeklystandard.com —
Rasmussen released results of a new national poll
yesterday showing Americans put more faith in the concept
of free market capitalism than they do in our national leaders’ ability to apply it. According to the poll : Forty-four percent (44%) of ...
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Faith in Free Markets
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/17/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
Faith And Works An awful story from the
Washington Post: "Rob Foster was 16 when his family
unraveled. He had told his parents that he wanted to leave Calvary Temple, the Pentecostal church in Sterling the family had attended for...
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Faith And Works
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Presidents and Heretics
Ross Douthat —
... whether Barack Obama is a Christian, one thing to keep in mind is the extent to which heresy of various sorts pervades American Christianity at this point - and, moreover, the extent to which it cuts across confessional, cultural, and political lines. The ...
Obama's Faith
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Joe Carter accuses me of not reading his orginal post on Obama's Christianity, Alan Jacobs defends Obama's faith, and Larison gets into the theological history. Freddie also responds here. Obama's description of Jesus as a bridge between God and man (Joe's core sticking point) does not, it seems to me, exclude his divinity, which is why I find Carter's search for heresy misplaced. The Incarnation is just such a bridge and a mystery. I guess I find a modern Christianity that is not attuned to that mystery, not willing to reimagine and undergo God in ways ...
Apparently, I'm not a Christian
Nitpicker —
... Update: And, if he's going to be the new arbiter who judges which of us are sacred and which profane, then Carter should have to answer Daniel Larison's implied question, "Is Romney Christian or is he not?" ...
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