McChurched: 300 Million Served and Still Hungry

by Dr. Stan Moody

My book is my appeal to millions of American Christians who have been pushed out of an evangelical church that has lost its bearings in its worship of the American Dream of health, wealth, financial success and nationalism.  Calling the evangelical church a "Christian Ghetto," I seek to dismantle the foundation on which the Christian Right has built its...

Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality

By Dr. Robert Jones

I wanted to share the book with the FaithfulDemocrats.com community because it shows how including religious voices in progressive politics might help progressives be truer to their own commitments to equality and avoid getting trapped in ideological orthodoxy. 

In the book, I argue that egalitarian liberals ought to oppose physician-assisted

By Jennifer S. Butler 

Executive Director, Faith in Public Life 

My book, Born Again: The Christian Right Globalized, reveals how the Christian Right is building international, interfaith coalitions and shaping policy in every corner of the world.  The book provides the first insider’s account of the strategies and effectiveness of Christian Right lobbying at the United Nations, and...

By Jonathan Miller

As the Democratic elected State Treasurer and Jewish native of Kentucky, a "red" state in the heart of the Bible belt, I bring a unique perspective to today's intense and polarizing debate concerning the proper role of religion and "moral values" in the political arena. I...

By Becky Garrison

While Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church highlights the battles between the warring political factions, I also note those all too rare instances when instead of creating ideological havens for like-minded political souls to gather, the church has chosen to receive the other based on the Greatest Commandment of all.

The Sojourners’ slogan has it right: God...

Toxic Faith: Liberal Cure, a new book by Daniel C. Bruch and Thomas W. Strieter, gives clear and reasoned answers in a Judeo-Christian context to what the religious right gets all wrong.  It is designed to be read by everyone -- religious or secular, conservative, moderate, or liberal -- who is alarmed by the agenda...

By Linda Seger 

To me, both Christianity and democracy are challenging - they challenge us to follow the Golden Rule - to do unto others as we would want others to do unto us.

Jesus Rode a Donkey shines the light of Scripture and theology on policy decisions of both the Republican and Democratic party, and looks at the many ways that,...

By Diana Butler Bass 

My just-released book, Christianity for the Rest of Us (Harper, September 2006), presents the stories and findings of a three-year grass-roots study of spiritually vital mainline churches that involved interviews with more than 350 people.  Although most media attention is directed toward evangelical megachurches and their political concerns, my research went the opposite direction: I...