Entries Tagged as “Politics”

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Peggy Noonan: There Is No New Frontier
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: Peggy Noonan
By:  Craig Uffman on October 20, 2009 Excerpt: People who oppose a health-care overhaul are not in love with insurance companies. They're not even in love with the status quo. Everyone knows the jerry-built system of the past…   Read full post >>

Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God
By:  Craig Uffman on September 28, 2009
Excerpt:  “(Mark 9:38–50 NRSV) “John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But…   Read full post >>

Immigration Gets ‘Churchy’
Channel: On Faith  Author: Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
By:  Craig Uffman on September 26, 2009 Excerpt: "The future of immigration reform legislation rests with faith communities." --Cardinal Mahony, the Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles Cardinal Mahony spoke this week on a panel at the Center for…   Read full post >>

It’s Easy Being Green
Channel: New York Times  Author: Paul Krugman
By:  Craig Uffman on September 26, 2009 Excerpt: So, have you enjoyed the debate over health care reform? Have you been impressed by the civility of the discussion and the intellectual honesty of reform opponents? If so, you’ll…   Read full post >>

Health-care option: The Corinthian Plan
Channel: Christian Century  Author: Amy Frykholm
By:  Craig Uffman on September 22, 2009 Excerpt: When Juanita Nuñez and her husband, Eligio, copastors of a small Mennonite congregation in Apopka, Florida, were involved in a serious car accident in 2006, Juanita Nuñez immediately worried about…   Read full post >>

Bishops lobby Congress members on social justice issues
Channel: Episcopal Life  Author: Lynette Wilson
By:  Craig Uffman on September 18, 2009 Excerpt: Bishops representing 200,000 Episcopalians from Maine to California made the case for health care and immigration reform, and stricter environmental protection on Capitol Hill Sept. 16. Together as "Bishops Working…   Read full post >>

Rowan Williams Channels Jeremiah: “Bankers, Repent!”
Channel: Times (UK)  Author: Ruth Gledhill
By:  Craig Uffman on September 16, 2009 Excerpt: The Archbishop of Canterbury has attacked the bonus culture of the City, condemning the failure of bankers to repent for their excesses. Dr Rowan Williams, who has consistently taken a…   Read full post >>

Ruth Gledhill: Archbishop of Canterbury on Sin and the City
Channel: Times (UK)  Author: Ruth Gledhill
By:  Craig Uffman on September 16, 2009 Excerpt: Repent, or be doomed, is the Jeremiah-style message of the Archbishop of Canterbury over our financial excesses. I can think of no person better suited to deliver it. See the…   Read full post >>

Free Speech, Now that Speech Is Free
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: L. GORDON CROVITZ
By:  Craig Uffman on September 14, 2009 Excerpt: The equivalent of the health-care debate a few years ago was the battle over the McCain-Feingold law, which was supposed to be the most important political reform in a generation.…   Read full post >>

Christian Girls, Interrupted
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: WILLIAM MCGURN
By:  Craig Uffman on September 08, 2009 Excerpt: Two Christian girls. Two sets of distraught parents. And two state courts smack in the middle of it. One of these courts is in New Hampshire, where a judge recently…   Read full post >>

Stranger Danger? Fear Mustn’t Sway Immigration Views
Channel: Ethics Daily  Author: Drew Smith
By:  Craig Uffman on September 02, 2009 Excerpt: Perhaps the most beloved story in the Gospels, and indeed maybe the favorite story for many from the entire Bible, is the story of Jesus' birth. Even when it is…   Read full post >>

S.C. Gov. Sanford says God on his side
Channel: Washington Times  Author: Ralph Z. Hallow
By:  Craig Uffman on September 02, 2009 Excerpt: Embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford acknowledged Tuesday that he has been shaken by the failure of a single fellow Republican to back him in his fight to save his…   Read full post >>

Jack Bauer’s Health-Care Reform
Channel: On Faith  Author: DAVID WATERS
By:  Craig Uffman on September 01, 2009 Excerpt: Would Rush Limbaugh support Canadian-style, government-run universal health care, if he knew Jack Bauer thought it was "damn well worth fighting for'? Of if he knew that the man who…   Read full post >>

The Political Challenge of Catholic Anglicanism
By:  Fr. Dan Martins on August 05, 2009
Excerpt:  On the Sunday evening that fell during General Convention, it was my privilege to serve as a panelist in a roundtable discussion sponsored by <i>The Living Church. The subject was…   Read full post >>

Time: Finding Common Ground on an Abortion Bill
Channel: Time  Author: AMY SULLIVAN
By:  Craig Uffman on July 23, 2009 Excerpt: The volume in the abortion debate has been stuck at rancorous screaming for so long that when it gets turned down, it's disorienting, like walking outside after a rock concert…   Read full post >>

A Primer on the New General Motors
Channel: New York Times  Author: MICHELINE MAYNARD
By:  Craig Uffman on July 10, 2009 Excerpt: With GM emerging from bankruptcy today, I found this "primer" helpful in understanding the new "Obama Motors." General Motors closed the sale of its best assets to a new company…   Read full post >>

Required reading:  CARITAS IN VERITATE
By:  Craig Uffman on July 10, 2009
Excerpt:  Given the discussions at General Conference and in the national news, it seems right to feature this important encyclical by the learned teacher given us by Providence, Benedict XVI: INTRODUCTION…   Read full post >>

Let the Little Children Come: Scripture and the DREAM Act
Channel: Sojourners  Author: Matthew Soerens
By:  Craig Uffman on July 10, 2009 Excerpt: Throughout the Old Testament, we find God’s repeated command to care and look out for immigrants.  As an immigrant people themselves, the people of Israel were mandated to remember their…   Read full post >>

David Brooks: Vince Lombardi Politics
Channel: New York Times  Author: David Brooks
By:  Craig Uffman on June 30, 2009 Excerpt: Freud said we’re forever changed by the traumas of our youth, and so it is with the Democrats and Clintoncare. Even as you watch the leading Democrats today in their…   Read full post >>

The Gradest Generation
Channel: NPR  Author: Linton Weeks
By:  Benjamin Guyer on June 19, 2009 Excerpt: NPR.org, June 18, 2009 · Baby boomers — which the Census Bureau defines as the group of 78 million or so people born between 1946 and 1964 — are obsessed…   Read full post >>

Memorial Day Address: A New Birth in Freedom
By:  Craig Uffman on May 25, 2009
Excerpt:  The following is the text of the address I gave this morning at the annual Memorial Day celebration in Warsaw, Indiana. The address was given at a cemetery dotted with…   Read full post >>

Obama After Bush: Leading by Second Thought
Channel: New York Times  Author: DAVID E. SANGER
By:  Craig Uffman on May 16, 2009 Excerpt: WASHINGTON — President Obama’s decisions this week to retain important elements of the Bush-era system for trying terrorism suspects and to block the release of pictures showing abuse of American-held…   Read full post >>

Souter’s Exit Could Alter Church-State Mix on Court
Channel: On Faith  Author: Michelle Boorstein
By:  Craig Uffman on May 05, 2009 Excerpt: Church-state experts say Supreme Court Justice David Souter has been passionate on religion-related issues, with his own particular blend of views, and that the landscape could seriously shift under a…   Read full post >>

An Affordable Salvation
Channel: New York Times  Author: Paul Krugman
By:  Craig Uffman on May 01, 2009 Excerpt: The 2008 election ended the reign of junk science in our nation’s capital, and the chances of meaningful action on climate change, probably through a cap-and-trade system on emissions, have…   Read full post >>

Poll: Rising U.S. Support for Social Issues, Such as Gay Marriage and Immigration
Channel: On Faith  Author: Jennifer Agiesta and Alec MacGillis
By:  Craig Uffman on May 01, 2009 Excerpt: Republicans may not be able to rely on social issues as they try to rebound against a popular president and increasingly dominant Democratic Party, as a new Washington Post-ABC News…   Read full post >>

Gay marriage is a social good
Channel: Guardian  Author: Theo Hobson
By:  Craig Uffman on May 01, 2009 Excerpt: [Editor's note: The Guardian has published an interesting series of articles this week from a variety of viewpoints in responding to the question, "Is gay marriage a religious issue?" We…   Read full post >>

A challenge for the church
By:  Craig Uffman on May 01, 2009 Excerpt: [Editor's note: The Guardian has published an interesting series of articles this week from a variety of viewpoints in responding to the question, "Is gay marriage a religious issue?" We…   Read full post >>

McCain’s Campaign Manager Opposes GOP as ‘Religious Party’
Channel: U.S. News & World Report  Author: Dan Gilgoff
By:  Craig Uffman on April 21, 2009 Excerpt: A day after the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee delivered a speech steeped in religion, the campaign manager for the 2008 Republican presidential nominee delivered a speech warning the GOP…   Read full post >>

Goodbye Bland Affluence
Channel: Wall Street Journal  Author: Peggy Noonan
By:  Craig Uffman on April 20, 2009 Excerpt: A small sign of the times: USA Today this week ran an article about a Michigan family that, under financial pressure, decided to give up credit cards, satellite television, high-tech…   Read full post >>

What I Saw at the Revolution
Channel: National Review  Author: Kevin Williamson
By:  Craig Uffman on April 17, 2009 Excerpt: Considering the Tea Party crowd, I wonder: Is an effective national political coalition of the Right still possible? The old Fusionism articulated by National Review produced a broadly unified Right…   Read full post >>

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