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The Top 10 Religion/Politics Stories of '09: Catholicism at the Fore; Niebuhr's Reemergence
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyDespite America's legal wall between church and state, the mixing of faith and politics is all but unavoidable. This past year was typical in the number of major stories with aspects of religion that had powerful public-policy and cultural implications. David Gibson and I, who filter the news stream for faith 'n' values items here at Politics Daily, have produced our top 10 list of religion-politics stories for 2009. We make no claim of infallibility, of course. Feel free to weigh in with your opinions in the comments section. But please, let's be civil out there. ...
Of Niebuhr and Nobels: Divining Obama's Theology
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe political subtexts of Barack Obama's Nobel Prize acceptance speech were manifest, and were everywhere parsed for their various implications for the war in Afghanistan, to cite the most obvious example, as well as their domestic repercussions for a freshman president trying to avoid the label of undeserving overachiever. But the theological language of Obama's speech may be the most important and consistent thread running through his remarks -- a theme that traverses the political considerations of the day and provides the best framework for understanding what came before Oslo and what ...
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