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Provides a discussion of the intersection of politics and religion and examines why public policy--on both sides of the political aisle--cannot be inclusive of the essential moral values of prophetic religious traditions: pro-justice, pro-peace, pro-environment, pro-equality, and pro-family.
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Viking
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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As a three-term Republican senator from Missouri and an Episcopal priest, John Danforth has watched the changes in his party and the church with growing alarm. Now he wants to voice his concerns and call for change. Danforth speaks out clearly against the religious right's conflation of their political agenda with a religious agenda. He castigates the religious right for their focus on wedge issues that drive people apart and that create tests for...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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An award-winning journalist follows up his New York Times bestseller American Carnage with this profoundly troubling portrait of the American evangelical movement in which he investigates the ways in which conservative Christians have pursued, exercised and often abused power in the name of securing this earthly kingdom.
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English
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"Two friends on opposite sides of the aisle provide a practical guide to grace-filled political conversation while challenging readers to put relationship before policy and understanding before argument. More than ever, politics seems driven by conflict and anger. People sitting together in pews every Sunday have started to feel like strangers, loved ones at the dinner table like enemies. Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers say there is a better...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
Initially a populist rebellion against the established Protestant churches, evagelicalism became the dominant religious force in the country before the Civil War, but the northerners and southerners split over the issue of slavery. After the Civil War, the northern evangelicals split, eventually causing a conflict between fundamentalists and modernists. Only after the second World War would conservative evangelicalism gain momentum, thanks in large...
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Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Do "In God We Trust," the Declaration of Independence, and other historical "evidence" prove that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? A constitutional attorney dives into the debate about religion's role in America's founding.
In today's contentious political climate, understanding religion's role in American government is more important than ever. Christian nationalists assert...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Married to an evangelical paster's son with a comfortable life, the author describes her reckoning with religious trauma and Midwestern values as she shed years of indoctrination, piety, and repression and came out as queer, and discusses how evangelicalism has undermined American political power structures.
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Eerdmans Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Historian and evangelical christian John Fea explains in this book why 80% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump. He argues that embracing Trump was the logical outcome of a long-standing approach to public life defined by fear, the pursuit of worldly power, and a nostalgic longing for a past America that was less complex with less varied values and races.
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