Choosing Mugabe
Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister recently died, amid little fanfare. Abel Muzorewa was a United Methodist bishop who replaced the Rhodesian white minority regime, only to be undermined by the...
View ArticleThe Last Best Hope
One of the many beliefs — i.e., non-empirically based doctrines — of the post-Christian West has been that moral progress is the human norm, especially so with the demise of religion. In a secular...
View ArticleLeft Warns Obama of ‘Holy Hell’ over Tar Sands Pipeline
Egged on by a supportive video from Robert Redford, the Religious Left rallied with environmentalists on Sunday afternoon outside the White House to oppose the Keystone XLL pipeline from Canada. This...
View ArticleThe Religious Left’s 2011 Meltdown
Emblematic of the Religious Left’s melt-down is a recently vandalized “gay” Nativity scene at a Claremont, California United Methodist Church. This scene on the avant garde church lawn, under a star...
View ArticleChrist at an Israeli Checkpoint
Alex Awad of Bethlehem Bible College The Evangelical Left is hosting a “Christ at the Checkpoint” jamboree at the birthplace of Jesus Christ to identify the Savior with Palestinian liberation. This...
View ArticleReligiously Disputing Big Government
The international Religious Left equates Big Government with God’s Kingdom and angrily rejects any limits on government growth as supposed attacks on the vulnerable. But former Archbishop of...
View ArticleObama Mobilizes Religious Left Over ObamaCare
The Obama Administration is mobilizing the Religious Left to conduct a prayer vigil outside the U.S. Supreme Court when it hears arguments about Obamacare’s constitutionality in late March. Apparently...
View ArticleGod’s Federal Budget Priorities?
The Religious Left does not like budget proposals from Congressman Paul Ryan because they don’t raise taxes or eliminate the U.S. Defense Department. One activist even denounces his plan as “moral...
View ArticleLeftist Bishop Rejects Anti-Israel Divestment
While the United Methodist Church and Presbyterian Church (USA) denominations will ponder anti-Israel divestment at their conventions this year, the Episcopal Church’s Presiding Bishop opposes...
View ArticleMethodist ‘Repentance’ for America’s Sins
The Religious Left likes to “repent” for other peoples’ sins, preferably the sins of dead white persons who left this world centuries ago while supposedly bequeathing only a shameful legacy of...
View ArticleReligious Left Opposes Pressure Against Iranian Nukes
Bipartisan resolutions proposed in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, equally backed by Republicans and Democrats, are urging the “President to reaffirm the unacceptability of an Iran...
View ArticleReligious Left Laments America’s Discovery
Officers of left-leaning, declining churches that no longer evangelize or believe in their own doctrines often have plenty of time to attend tedious secular meetings, such as the 11th session of the...
View ArticleReligious Left Pushes for Arms Trade Treaty
In July, negotiations at the United Nations are expected to conclude an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to control global small arms sales. The National Association of Evangelicals has jumped on board with...
View Article‘Torture Awareness Month’ Sweeps Washington
In case you missed it, this month is “Torture Awareness Month,” organized by the Religious Left, chiefly by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT). For more targeted emphasis, this...
View ArticleReligious Left Resents a Free South Korea
Decades ago, liberal Protestants used to admire brave South Korea and its Methodist president, Syngman Rhee, for defying Stalinist North Korea and Maoist Red China. But for much of the last 40 years,...
View ArticleThe Religious Left and Hiroshima
Shane Claiborne, a popular pacifist evangelical, recalled the 67th anniversary of Hiroshima by quoting the pacifist remarks of a Catholic priest who, having served as a chaplain in the Pacific during...
View ArticleLeftist Christians vs. the Jewish State
As much of the Middle East tilts towards or implodes into Islamist rule, the ever feckless Religious Left in America has organized an ecumenical appeal asking the U.S. Congress to reduce U.S. aid for...
View ArticleThe Left’s Drone Demonization Campaign
This year President Obama has stepped up drone strikes, which took out, among others, Sakhar al-Taifi, a key al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan. Such strikes disturb a coalition of Muslim groups,...
View ArticleReligious Left Wants Control of More than Guns
A Religious Left coalition convened in the historic United Methodist building on Capitol Hill early this week essentially to back President Obama’s new gun control initiatives. Of course, Sojourners...
View ArticleSoros-Funded Religious Left Group Targets Gitmo
The chief torturer of Sudan’s Islamist regime is soon to visit the U.S., igniting not a peep of concern from left-leaning church officials ostensibly very concerned about “torture.” Instead, a long...
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