Index By title | By topic | By included reference/link   Blog or Guest Article Title Ancient Texts and Tender Feelings (July 29) Been There, Done That (August 6) The Bible and the Human Fetus (May 20) The Bogus Biblicism of the Religious Right (Jack Good) "Books of Long-Dead Men" (July 10) Chain of Title (June 13) Checking the Christian Right's Compass (June 5) Christian Certainty (May 22) The Christian Gender Gap (August 11) Christian Jewelry (May 19) Christian Terrorism (June 2) The Connection between Heart and Brain (August 15) Church and State/Sacrament and Civil Contract (Hart Roussel) Clarifying Some Terminology (August 19) Crisis of Faith (August 26) Dreams of the Future (June 16) Dreams of the Future (2): Back to the Future (June 17) Dreams of the Future (3): Without a Future (June 18) Dreams of the Future (4): The Poetry of Dreams (June 19) Dreams of the Future (5): Maps to a New World (June 20) Evolution and the Christian Right (June 6) Flexible and Resolute: A Model Progressive Politician (June 30) Get it Firsthand (July 30) Getting It Out in the Open (August 18) Gift or Reward (May 26) Hallelujah! The Church is One! (May 29) Hero of the Faith (June 10) How Does the Democratic Presidential Field Compare to Harry Truman_ (July 3) How The Radical Right Is Hijacking Christianity and America (Jack Sweeley) "I Won't Stand for any Double-Talk" (July 1) If We Say We Have No Sin (August 25) Immoral Taxes_ (May 18) The Importance of "Some" (August 14) Is the Christian Right dying_ (May 21) Jack Good's Open Letter to "Bright" Dan Dennett (August 5) Koran or Qur'an or Quran_ To "K" or not to "K" (July 31) A Line Too Thin to Walk (June 3) Lost and Found (June 12) The Makings of a Perfect Storm: Historical Naiveté and Warped Theology (Hart Roussel) The Neocons' Creed (August 4) The Opposite of Dumb and Dumber: Two "Brights" Side by Side (August 13) Papal Infallibility: Perceptions and Reality (Matt Zemek) The Pasteurized and Homogenized Community (May 30) The Politics of Bible Translation (June 4) The Power of Words (July 2) Putting Our Minds--and Hearts--to Work (August 7) Reclaiming Mary Magdalene: the Future of Gay and Lesbian Persons in our World (Hart Roussel) Review, Revisit, Rewind (June 9) The Route to Consensus: Permitting Change while Preserving Continuity (July 11) Say It Ain't So, Condi (August 12) The Self-Delusions of a "Deductive Atheist" (July 28) Some in the Family Don't Approve of this "Mixed Marriage" (May 28) The Struggle in Alabama Continues (August 27) The Sources of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream (August 28) A Uniter and a Divider (June 11) The Value(s) of our Families (June 23) The Value(s) of our Families (2): Conform Them or Help Them_ (June 24) The Value(s) of our Families (3): Participate or Dictate_ (June 25) The Value(s) of our Families (4): What's Wrong with the Christian Right (June 26) The Value(s) of our Families (5): How Progressives Can Talk About "Family Values" (June 27) Walking in the Way of his Father (July 8) We Need Barnabas (August 20) Where Do They Go From Here_ (July 9) Where's the SCLM (So Called Liberal Media)_ (August 8) Which Ten Commandments_ (August 21) Would You Want to Live in Alan Keyes' America_ (August 22)   Topical Index Abortion and Bible translations: June 4 June 9 Jack Good's "Bogus Biblicism of the Religious Right" Jack Sweeley's "How The Radical Right Is Hijacking Christianity and America" Legislation Unborn Victims of Violence Act Alabama tax reform movement: June 10 June 11 June 12 June 26 August 6 August 8 August 11 August 15 August 20 August 27 Alabama Ten Commandments controversy: August 21 August 22 Americans United for Separation of Church and State Arthur, Kay Ashcroft, John: June 6 Atheism: June 27 July 10 July 11 Augsburg Confession Benham, Flip June 2 Bennett, William: May 18 Bible translations NIV: June 4 LIving Bible and New Living Bible: June 4 June 9 Block, Daniel Brights: August 5 August 13 Bush, G. W. faith and decision-making: May 22 August 26 character: June 19 July 8 and the Christian Right and foreign policy: August 4 and gays Carlson, Tucker: August 4 Catholicism (Roman): bias against: Matt Zemek sacrament of penance: Matt Zemek papal infallibility Matt Zemek Chalcedon Foundation: June 17 Christian Coalition: June 24 July 9 Christian Doctrine and Ethics biblical interpretation/exegesis: May 18, May 19, May 20 May 28 May 30 June 3 June 4 J. Good June 17 June 18 June 19 June 25 June 26 June 27 July 8 July 10 July 11 July 29 "community:" May 30 confession/sacrament of penance "Decision Theology:" May 22 May 26 End times/eschatology: May 28 June 16 June 17 June 18 August 12 Evangelism: August 22 Faith stages: August 15 Gay ordination: June 11 Grace/works: May 26 Hallelujah/Alleluia: July 31 Holiness Code: May 30 June 17 Infallibility/Inerrancy of Scripture: June 25 June 26 Jack Sweeley July 10 July 11 Jesus: June 11 June 25 June 26 Law and Gospel: May 26 Leadership: July 8 Millenialism: May 28 June 16 June 17 June 18 Models for Christian/non-Christian interaction: June 26 June 27 July 11 Mysticism August 15 papacy Premillenial Dispensationalism: May 28 June 16 June 17 June 18 "Rapture:" June 18 Reconstructionism/Theonomy: June 16 June 17 social justice: June 5 August 8 August 28 Ten Commandments: August 21 unity of the Church: June 11 witness: May 19 May 26 Christian Identity Christian Right agenda: May 18 June 24 Jack Sweeley and Alabama tax reform: June 10 June 26 August 6 August 11 attitudes toward: June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 July 9 August 14 August 15 and Catholics and children: June 24 and the Constitution: June 24 Jack Sweeley August 21 August 22 Creationism and divorced pastors and evolution: June 6 June 25 Jack Sweeley "family values:" June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 Jack Sweeley Roussel July 9 and gays: June 3 Jack Good June 24 June 25 June 26 July 9 history: June 24 Sweeley Islam: June 2 June 25 July 29 July 31 Israel: May 28 June 13 June 18 June 24 June 25 and media: May 29 political strength: May 21 June 24 June 25 Jack Sweeley July 9 August 19 Reconstructionists: June 16 June 17 and social Darwinism: June 6 and social justice: June 5 June 6 June 10 June 24 August 8 and women: June 24 Roussel Civil Rights: June 30 July 1 July 2 July 10 July 11 Combs, Roberta: August 8 August 11 Committee on Bible Translation Connor, Ken: June 3 July 9 Coulter, Ann: August 25 Christian Coalition: Alabama Chapter:August 6 August 8 August 11 Criticial Familism: June 23 June 24 June 25 June 27 July 11 DeLay, Tom: May 21 June 5 June 6 Jack Sweeley June 30 Dean, Howard: June 23 Dennett, Daniel: August 5 August 13 August 15 Dini, Michael Dobson, James: June 24 June 25 July 9 August 8 Dreams: June 16 June 17 June 18 June 19 July 8 Esmay, Dean: June 23 June 25 June 26 July 10 Evangelicals Divisions May 28 pastors' duty June 6 Faith-Based Initiatives Falwell, Jerry: May 26 May 28 Jack Good Family Research Council: June 3 June 11 June 24 June 26 July 9 Family Values/Marriage: June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 Roussel July 2 July 9 Federal Marriage Amendment: July 9 Feminism: May 30 June 24 Fields, Alonzo "Fly Away" Focus on the Family: June 24 Frist, Bill: May 18 June 30 Roussel Giles, John: August 8 August 11 Gomes, Peter Goodwin, Richard Graham, Franklin: May 26 Hamill, Susan Pace: June 10 June 11 June 12 August 27 Homosexuality/Gay Rights: May 30 June 3 Good Roussel July 2 July 9 July 10 July 11 August 6 August 11 Iraq: May 26 Israel: May 28 June 9 June 13 Islam attitudes of Christian Right toward: May 26 June 2 moderates Qur'an/Koran: July 29 July 30 July 31 terrorism Jenkins, Jerry Kennedy, Robert F. Keyes, Alan: August 22 King, Jr., Martin Luther: June 20 August 25 August 28 Kristol, William: August 4 Land, Richard: June 13 Landover Baptist Church "Left Behind" series: May 28 June 4 June 18 August 12 Liberty Legal Institute Lindsey, Hal: June 18 August 12 Lott, Trent: May 18 Luther, Martin: July 30 "Luxenberg": July 29 July 30 July 31 Mary Magdalene Martin Marty Center: June 23 June 24 June 25 Moore, Judge Roy: August 21 August 22 Mouw, Richard Muncaster, Ralph National Reform Association: June 17 North, Gary Operation Save America Overholser, Geneva Palestianian Christians: August 4 Parental Rights and Responsiblities Act: June 24 June 26 Patriarchalism: Jack Good June 24 June 26 People for the American Way "Pretribs:" May 28 June 16 August 12 Progressive Christianity: August 18 August 19 Progressives attitudes toward Christians: August 14 August 15 August 18 Theory of Everything: August 7 Pryor, William Public Conversations Project Racicot, Mark: June 3 June 26 Rand, Ayn: July 28 "Raving Atheist": July 10 July 11 July 28 July 29 Reconstructionists: June 16 June 17 Reimarus, Hermann: July 29 Rice, Condoleeza Riley, Governor Bob (Alabama): June 10 June 12 August 8 August 20 August 27 Robertson, Pat: May 19 May 28 Robinson, Gene: June 11 August 6 Roosevelt, Franklin Rove, Karl Rudolph, Eric Rushdoony, R. J. Santorum, Rick: May 18 Separation of Church and State: Alabama Ten Commandments controversy: August 22 Brenda Nichol case and the Christian Right: June 23 and the founding fathers Jack Sweeley June 27 Sharpton, Rev. Al Simpson, Alan Social Justice: May 18, May 21 June 5 June 6 June 9 June 10 Jack Good June 30 July 1 Social Darwinism: June 6 June 9 Southern Christian Leadership Conference Spencer, Herbert Spradling, Micah "Strict Father" metaphor/morality: May 26 June 5 June 16 August 11 Sullivan, Andrew: June 26 July 10 Taxes: May 18 June 5 Templeton, John Marks Truman, Harry: June 30 July 1 July 2 July 3 Tyndale House: June 4 June 9 June 18 Van Impe, Jack Ziegler, Jeffrey   By Author or Source of Included Reference/Link Alterman, Eric: May 20 May 30 June 19 Balkin, Jack: August 22 Barna, George: May 21 Browning, Don: June 23 June 24 June 25 June 27 July 11 August 15 Bushwatch: May 18 Calvary Contender: May 21 Christian Broadcasting Network: May 19 Christianity Today: May 19 May 28 Collins, John: May 28 Conn, Joseph Cooperman, Alan Crary, David Cross, Frank Moore: June 12 Farooq, Mohammad Omar Fineman, Howard: May 28 May 29 Fowler, James: July 11 August 15 August 19 August 26 Gardner, Michael R.: June 30 July 1 July 2 Goldberg, Danny: August 7 Good, Jack: June 10 "Bogus Biblicism of the Religious Right" June 20 August 5 August 13 August 15 The Dishonest Church Green, Joshua Hamill, Susan Pace: June 10 August 11 August 14 Hanson, Paul: June 17 Henderson, Charles: August 19 Huffington, Arianna Hughes, Langston Kazin, Michael Keller, Bill: May 21, May 22 Kelley, Robin D. G.: June 16 June 17 June 18 June 19 June 20 June 30 July 1 Kristoff, Nicholas: June 13 August 15 August 19 Lakoff, George: May 21 May 26 May 30 June 5 June 16 June 18 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 30 July 1 July 11 July 28 August 11 August 19 Lavigne, Bryan Lipper, Tamara: May 28 Livingston, Gordon The Lutheran: May 18 Marty , Martin: May 22 August 26 McKinley, Brian Mill, John Stuart: July 10 July 11 Miller, Merle Nasr, Seyyed Hossein: July 29 Parker, Richard Peirce, Neal Peterson, Pete Rashi: June 4 June 9 July 30 Rawls, John: July 11 Rich, Frank: May 18, May 21 Rifkin, Ira Roussel, Hart: "Marriage" "Historical Perspective" "Reclaiming Mary Magdalene: the Future of Gay and Lesbian Persons in our World" Ruse, Michael Russakof, Mike: August 20 Schillebeeckx, Edward: Roussel Sheehan, Paul Sweeley, Jack Sullivan, Amy Sullivan, Andrew: July 9 Tomlin, Gregory Wallis, Jim: August 26 Walther, C. F. W.: May 26 Weber, Timothy White, John Kenneth: May 21 Williams, J. Robert Zemek, Matt: "Papal Infallibility: Perceptions and Reality" June 27 July 1 July 2 Zogby, John: May 21

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