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Don Miller and Barack Obama exchange emails


Obama NOT gaining evangelical voters


John McCain’s Jesus problem


Keep sweating those evangelical votes, Obama


Barack Obama gaining evangelical voters


Rove avoids the sacred elephant in the room


Evangelical on same-sex marriage: Quoting Scripture not enough


Obama and Bush’s evangelicals *


Vote ‘Jesus for President’


Barack and the Bible


The virgin push—he, she and Jesus


James Dobson doesn’t speak for me either


James Dobson and Obama’s fruitcake


How many evangelical votes can McCain afford to lose?


Evangelicals on McCain: ‘in a holding pattern’ *


Jumping for Jesus in a house filled with Jews


Why the Religious Right won’t forsake McCain


Evangelical leaders: global warming ‘uncertain’


GodTube likes big bucks


Leading evangelicals to condemn group’s politicization


Wheaton professor fired over divorce


Gonzo journalist goes on Christian retreat; says ‘Jesus made me puke’


Evangelicals kicked out of Jordan


Hagee says the darndest things


‘Hating Hillary’


Americans change faiths frequently


Rick Warren On Faith


McCain loses conservative Christian vote, according to GodTube’s unscientific, but possibly accurate


TV goons miss the point on religion coverage


Zogby must be wrong: evangelicals like Hillary?


Why Huckabee will bomb in big cities


Obama on reaching evangelicals


Pat Robertson not popular with evangelicals


Hillary and evangelicals: ‘The Antichrist is here’


Huckabee: ‘Change the Constitution’ for God


Round 2 for McCain and S. Carolina evangelicals


New Yorker on megachurches


‘Abortion isn’t a religious issue’


Evangelicals ‘over-committed to the Bible’


Evangelicals takeover America


Pat Robertson endorses Giuliani—who cares?


Wycliffe Hall under attack


Evangelical political split gets big play in NYT


‘The Crisis of Modern Fundamentalism’


What’s wrong with Post religion reporting?


‘Right With God’


Paper checks in on ‘reluctant Republicans’


‘Gingerly, Romney Seeks Ties to Christian Right’


Bush loses favor with young evangelicals


LA Times learns ‘Evangelicals Split on GOP’


The world of ‘classical Christian education’


Evangelicals to split from Republican Party?


The religious politics for ‘08


Latinos who love Israel, maybe Jews too


Mitt Romney sits down with Christianity Today


Scary evangelicals?


Why Christians should love Israel


Another neocon working for Giuliani


Michael Bloomberg’s religion problem


Why New Yorkers don’t like Rudy, but Red Staters do


Karl Rove’s out—what’s next?


Remembering evangelicals for Iraq


Evangelical vote a ‘jump ball’ in ‘08


The evangelical problem


Evangelical Christians lost in the political desert


Matisyahu talks to Christians about Messiah


Rudy’s priest: the accused pedophile


‘Have you prayed for bin Laden today?’


The New Atheists


Evangelicals: Romney not ‘guided by God’


Billy Graham’s wife in a coma: Where will she rest?


Born-again porn star


Rudy’s crisis of faith


Evangelicals leaning liberal?


A Christian toast to Israel


Gingrich to Liberty grads: beware ‘radical secularism’


Falwell for Israel


Evangelical vote up for grabs


Talk about interfaith marriage


More than abortion and gays


The media’s Mormon problem


Democrats get religion


Christians and Jews together on Israel


America’s next top rabbi


The Rev. Al’s big gay comments


Local minister, dressed as High Priest, stages Yom Kippur service for evangelicals

The way Dieckilman sees it, Jews are God's Chosen People and Christians are simply "grafted on" to that group.

"There's no question Jews are the people blessed by God and chosen by God to bring redemption to earth," he said.

Local Christian Leaders Maintain Support for Israel

Even in the face of recent international criticism of Israel's war tactics, American Christians, especially Evangelicals, have remained steadfast in support of Jews and the Jewish state. Whereas vicious anti-Zionist attacks in much of Europe and the Arab world have lately bled into rank anti-Semitism, even those American Christians critical of Israel's recent actions have gone to great lengths to stress their support for the nation's right to exist.


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