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Hey, what's up with everybody here??? I am the only one posting here lately! With hot competition in BOTH major parties' presidential contests, we should be having good discussions here.

And I see LOTS of posts in christianleft!! For those of you who are members of both communities, what makes you post over there and not here?

Just curious ... thanks!

From a letter in today's New York Times:

The problem is that the religious right has so dominated theological discourse in our country for the last 25 years that it is easy to forget that religion is not necessarily rigid, conservative or fundamentalist.

The recent centennial of Rabbi [Abraham Joshua] Heschel’s birth and the celebration of the ( Read more... )

Here's an interesting excerpt from today's washingtonpost.com "live chat" with Post staff writer Paul Kane. (The questioner/commenter sounds like someone on my own friends' list, but I can't be sure unless/until he reveals himself.) As you can imagine, the discussion was largely about the Larry Craig "scandal."

Silver Spring, Md.: Mr. Kane, I wish ( Read more... )

From Grist magazine: 15 green religious leaders (plus some runners-up). Feel free to debate the inclusion or exclusion of your favorite religious environmentalist.

Here's a really good essay from Sunday's Boston Globe. A self-described evangelical author explores the differing attitudes between the Christians he worships with in Virginia and the international evangelical community.

One small excerpt:

Sometime after Operation Iraqi Freedom began, I made a remarkable discovery. I had gone to one of my local ( Read more... )

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become. The more outgoing we are, the more helpful we become. The more curious we are, the more creative we become. The more ( Read more... )

I just joined the community, and I was so happy to see that it existed!  I'm a liberal Christian... I support gay marriage, believe in freedom of speech and equality, and I believe in the separation of Church and State ( Read more... )

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.  It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

--THOMAS JEFFERSON

That’s Jefferson at his pithiest in defense of religious liberty.  It is one of my favorite quotes, and a mantra I intone to myself when ever religious zealotry-and bigotry-annoy me.  And there has been ( Read more... )

The following may not make much news outside of Massachusetts, because it's essentially an endorsement of the status quo. But here it is: Today the Massachusetts legislature, acting in "constitutional convention" mode, refused to put a referendum question asking for a ban on same-sex marriage on the 2008 statewide ballot ( Read more... )