Talking right, stumbling left
In less than a month, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has emerged as a political phenomenon capable, miracle of miracles, of grabbing almost as much public attention as Senator Barack Obama. Revered in...
View ArticlePerplexed by Pentecostalism
The nomination of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate has put Pentecostalism back in the national spotlight. Not since Attorney General John Ashcroft has someone with ties to the...
View ArticleWhat does Azusa have to do with Washington?
Does a candidate’s faith matter? That seems to be one of the more pressing questions being asked in opinion pieces and on blogs these last few weeks. Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah...
View ArticleA tale of two mavericks
Long before field dressing moose and shooting wolves from helicopters became part of American political parlance, a United States senator with White House ambitions sat down in his Washington D.C....
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A speck, a fleck, and—voila!—a governor
Clifford Geertz said it first (riffing on Ryle): the difference between twitches and winks could only be accomplished by “sorting out the structures of signification” through “thick” descriptions. So...
View ArticleChanging of the guard
In the wake of the presidential election, who now speaks for American evangelicals? Will the generation of James Dobson, Pat Robertson, and Chuck Colson be replaced with a new cohort? Does the...
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A tale of two Franks
Franklin Graham and Frank Schaeffer are outspoken sons of famous evangelical leaders. President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, the former is a supporter of Sarah Palin and generally...
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American Jews and Sarah Palin
This month’s Commentary features a provocative piece (click on the link and scroll down) by Jennifer Rubin on Jewish reactions to Sarah Palin. Here is the magazine’s summary of “Why Jews Hate Palin”:...
View ArticleSarah Palin and the Christian right
At Religion Dispatches, Sarah Posner dismisses the possibility that, with Sarah Palin as its leader, the Christian right could become a women’s movement: I’ve been writing about Sarah Palin since the...
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