The Christian Century

There's a sort of dualism that comes up when political commentators talk about conservative evangelicals: either they're powerful and unflappable advocates for the couple of causes we've always associated with them, or they don't really exist as a voting bloc at all.

Tuesday's speech was the most fired up and the readiest to go that we've seen Obama in a good long while.

I don't normally go for gotchas based on political candidates' rambling improvisations. But this one is hard to ignore: when Herman Cain appeared on Piers Morgan this week, he first told Morgan that he's opposed to abortion in all circumstances.

When reports started circulating that Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann was a member of a congregation in the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, I thought: this could be interesting.