Minister's Path of Miracles The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez helped oversee a shift of Latino voters, disillusioned with the Republican Party over failed immigration reform, toward the Democratic Party in the November election. (The Washington Post)
Invoking a Presidential Revelatory Moment The discussion of evil at the Saddleback forum gave Americans a valuable glimpse into the president-elect’s soul--and quite possibly into their own (Peter Steinfels, The New York Times)
Bad Faith Blaming religion for Proposition 8. (Robert K. Vischer, Commonweal)
Religion A Big Story in 2008 Tell Me More looks back at the people and the stories that rocked the faith world — from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the Rev. Rick Warren to the fallout over gay marriage in California. (NPR)
William McKenzie: Obama closes the God gap Public Religion Research's post-election poll shows Mr. Obama sharply improved on perceptions of the Democrats' friendliness to religion. (Dallas Morning News)
Abortion Politics Didn’t Doom the GOP Pro-lifers want to compromise, but so long as the Supreme Court remains closely divided on Roe vs. Wade, the movement won’t give up its political goal to have the decision overturned (Ross Douthat, The New York Times)
Religion news in brief - Yahoo! News A Roman Catholic priest urged his parishioners to confess if they voted for Barack Obama with knowledge of the president-elect's support for abortion rights, drawing a dissenting view from his bishop and further stirring a debate about Catholic political responsibility. (Associated Press)
Religion shaped 2008 in big, dramatic ways Barack Obama may have chosen Joe Biden, and John McCain may have turned to Sarah Palin, but in the end the most sought-after running mate in the 2008 campaign never appeared on a single ballot. (Religion News Service)
A Political Place For Evangelicals Lian Hansen interviews the NAE's Rich Cizik and Esperanza's Luis Cortez about the political direction of American evangelicals--white and hispanic. (NPR)
Inquiry Set on Mormon Aid for California Marriage Vote California officials will investigate accusations that the Mormon Church neglected to report nonmonetary contributions on behalf of a ballot measure to ban same-sex marriage. (The New York Times)
The evangelical shift that wasn’t Despite widespread predictions that many evangelicals would stay home or pull the lever for Obama, McCain managed to collect more white evangelical voters than George W. Bush four years ago. (Dan Gilgoff, Politico)
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