"The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life invited Laura Olson, author of the forthcoming book with the working title, Generals Without an Army: The Protestant Left in American Politics; Jennifer Butler, author of Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized; and Chris Korzen, Executive Director of Catholics United, to discuss the issue."

Addressing issues such as the Sabbath and religious liberty, James Standish, director of the North American Religious Liberty Association, testified before the U.S. Congress on the need to protect the rights of Sabbathkeepers and other religiously observant workers.

The previous post in this series looked at the vivid message of apocalyptic judgment on American slavery in Ellen White’s testimonies about her visions in the 1840s and 1850s. But did slavery primarily provide fodder for a doomsday theology rather than elicit a genuine, costly opposition to the evil?

Words. Almost. Fail. Watch the video first.

Tony Zirkle is a South Bend, Indiana, lawyer and Republican primary candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, District 2. On Sunday, he spoke to a Chicago group celebrating the birthday of Hitler.

This Sunday evening CNN is broadcasting a conversation between diverse faith leaders and presidential candidates Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama.

The Compassion Forum is focused on just five important issues to folks of faith: domestic and international poverty, global AIDS, climate change, genocide in Darfur, and human rights and torture.

With 26.3% of the American population identifying as evangelical -- the largest Pew-measured faith block in the country -- the MSM often treats these "born-again Christians" as monolithic. But new data shows shifts in affiliation tied to youth and education and as Georgetown's Jacques Berlinerblau argues in the WaPo, evangelicals are broadening their issues and even becoming "Obama-curious:"

Today C-SPAN announced the winners of its StudentCam contest. The Grand Prize winning video is “Leaving Religion at the Door,” by Scott Mitchell and Nick Poss, 11th graders at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma. Their film explores the role of religion in decisions about presidential candidates in 2008.

Well, that was a long strange election night.

After watching election returns from the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco last night, I'm a little tired of horse race politics. Thus, I found this Q & A with Jim Wallis and Brookings Fellow E. J. Dionne Jr. a good balm for my Adventist soul.