After serving as a minister for 20 years, Jill Wiley retired from her Massachusetts-based church last summer and spent two weeks in Iowa, collecting names of likeminded believers to mobilize for the 2008 presidential race. She’s likely to head to New Hampshire in the next few days to do the same. “My commitment is to…

The folks over at Evangelicals for Mitt noticed that in explaining his decision yesterday to pull an attack ad on Mitt Romney–strangely, he called a press conference to show the ad he was pulling–Mike Huckabee invoked a popular New Testament verse: “What does it profit you if you gain the world but lose your soul?”…

God-o-Meter’s friends at the Dallas Morning News Religion Blog report on a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that Barack Obama has received more money from clergy than any other 2008 presidential candidate, Democrat or Republican. He’s received three times as much from clergy as the top Republican, Mitt Romney. The report…

As Mitt Romney has trumpeted endorsement after endorsement from evangelical and Christian Right figures, God-o-Meter has often been skeptical about their impact, feeling they reveal more nervousness than confidence in the Romney camp about getting evangelical votes. But that’s not the case with last weekend’s Romney endorsement from Iowa Christian Alliance chairman Morris Hurd. The…

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