The Washington Post video team is running a mini-documentary on pastors running for political office. The piece features Cameron McGill, a Bladen County Commissioner and pastor of White Lake Church. McGill was “recruited and trained” by the American Renewal Project....
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The Church as the “GOP Farm Team”
Over at The Week, Bonnie Kristian has a brief piece chronicling the role that evangelicals are playing in propping-up the Republican Party. She writes in the wake of this event at Liberty University. Here is a taste: That such an event...
Why the Founding Fathers Wanted to Keep Ministers from Public Office
Here is my latest piece syndicated at Religion News Service: (RNS) There’s an old Baptist saying that goes something like this: “If you mix horse manure and ice cream it doesn’t do much to the manure, but it sure does...
"To Be Faithful to Jesus or Secular Paganism?"
In case you have not heard, “secular pagans” are rewriting American history and having “difficulty embracing the facts of history.” I am apparently one of these secular pagans. In the latest example of the Christian Right’s failure to fully grasp...
Have You Heard About the American Renewal Project?
David Lane (NY Times photo) I recently talked to Reuters journalist Michelle Conlin about David Lane and the American Renewal Project. You can read her finished piece here. The American Renewal Project is a network of 100,000 ministers and pastors...