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Budget Crisis & Debt Ceiling Crossroads: Time to Pray?
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Nicole Neroulias
America’s fiscal crisis and debt ceiling debate has prompted a lot of soul-searching, both literally and figuratively. (An interfaith gathering even attempted to pray away the problem… let’s see if it works better than praying away the gay!) As with the controversies over immigration reform and health care reform and other economic and social justice issues,…
Poll: In Godly Presidents We Trust?
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Nicole Neroulias
A new poll finds that most Americans want presidential candidates to have strong religious beliefs — even if those beliefs are different from their own. As Gary Scott Smith, a history professor at Grove City College and author of “Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush” told me: That’s a longstanding trend in American culture.…
Church-State Separation? Not for Presidential Candidates
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Nicole Neroulias
I’ve been preoccupied with the Cyprus disaster — that’s where my family is from, where I was traveling last month — and some stories I’m working on, so please excuse the blogging delays. There’s been plenty of headlines lately concerning the beliefs of our Republican presidential contenders. I always find this trend ironic, given the American…
UPDATED: Muslims, Jews Pay Close Attention to Obama’s Middle East Speech
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Nicole Neroulias
President Obama is giving gave a speech about the “Arab Spring” and related upheavals in the Middle East this morning, and is meeting with Israeli officials tomorrow and Sunday (unless the world ends). Here’s the text of the speech, which included this message about Osama bin Laden and Islam: Bin Laden was no martyr. He was a…
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