The Friends of Jake

By now you have heard that 8 conservative Christian churches in Arizona have started an unprecedented coordinated campaign to impugn a prog...

It cedes the norm (the unmodified description) to those who are not progressive, that's what.  Stop calling broad-minded, non-exclusiv...

From the Guardian: If... your country has a public health system that ensures that everyone who needs treatment receives it, without paym...

From a review in Salon : In her excellent new book, “ Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty ,” the sociologist ...

Making the rounds of the blogosphere is the consideration that the definition of "christianity" with the culture wars of gays and ...

America's Christian Hypocrisy:  Here’s a newspaper headline that might induce a disbelieving double take: “Christians ‘More Likely to...

Remember when Rick Santorum commented that mainline Protestantism is in a shambles, and the work of Satan? It was just the cherry on the ...

So, it seems that if you give people feedback on how much energy they use in the home, their response differs based on political affiliation...

In response to the bias of the Manhattan Declaration that opposes (among other things) gay rights, a group of affirming Christians has cre...

Or, turn about is fair play. From The Times : The Times has learnt that talks are already under way about forging permanent links between li...

As the church politics swirl around this and other sites, I am not the only person who finds the parallels to academe very striking, not lea...

I know you all are sick of Prop8, but this isn't about Prop8, except as a symptom. I want us to think about what provokes people into fe...

From the NY Times: the Democrats contest the Catholic vote: In a departure from previous elections, Democrats and liberal Catholic groups a...