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Strumming his guitar to a second-place finish in the silly Iowa straw poll this past weekend, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has alerted political reporters that evangelicals aren’t to be discounted as a voting bloc in the 2008 presidential election. Reporters covering the GOP side of the campaign were all set to discount evangelicals.
It’s not front-page news that Billy Graham has enjoyed varying degrees of access to every president since Harry Truman. The latest issue of Time, which publishes excerpts from the new book The Preacher and the Presidents by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy, reports some interesting new details:
For years now, I have been arguing that when people in public education face a revolt by conservative Christians or Orthodox Jews, they should play the following mind game.
Everyone back in Washington is getting all excited about The Atlantic‘s article on President Bush’s former speechwriter Mike Gerson by a former colleague of Gerson’s, Matthew Scully. Scully’s main point is that Gerson sucked up to reporters, promoted himself over his colleagues and took credit for work that wasn’t solely his.
At some point, the whole “moderate evangelicals are starting to care about Creation” story is going to get old, but it sure does not seem that this will happen anytime soon.
Bruce Tomaso at the Dallas Morning News‘ fine religion blog highlights a horrible Reuters story that Christianity Today‘s Ted Olsen found.
My GetReligion guilt file is not as thick as Metropolitan Mattingly’s, unless you count stories on which I wish my insights (or opinions) gave me a strong enough motivation to blog.
A reader of ours, UndergroundPewster, wrote us a note asking for our thoughts on this International Herald Tribune article on a new secular civics course being introduced in Spain.
