Lost faith in the GOP
Evangelical leader Richard Cizik explains how Iraq, corruption and other failures are transforming the political piety of America's religious voters.
Friday, Nov 10, 2006 1:37 PM UTC 58News 2006 Elections
Lauren Sandler
News 2006 Elections
Answered prayers?
The base turned out for the GOP candidate -- and against gay marriage -- in Haggard's home turf, but the mood was blue.
Wednesday, Nov 8, 2006 5:56 PM UTC 13News 2006 Elections
“This gay stuff has gotta stop”
At the Rev. Ted Haggard's polling place, his congregants turn out to back a gay-marriage ban.
Tuesday, Nov 7, 2006 10:45 PM UTC 18Politics War Room
Colorado Springs: A dead soldier, a fallen idol and a skunk
Vandalism and death threats in a deadlocked battle for the House.
Tuesday, Nov 7, 2006 7:14 PM UTCPolitics War Room
The pastor’s wife made him do it
Pastor tells flock that Haggard had gay sex because his wife let herself go.
Tuesday, Nov 7, 2006 5:12 PM UTC 49Life Sex, Broadsheet, Love and Sex
After the fall
Will the Haggard scandal usher in a new age of Christian tolerance or increase the religious right's homophobia?
Tuesday, Nov 7, 2006 1:15 PM UTC 59News 2006 Elections
“I’m guilty of sexual immorality,” Haggard tells his flock
At New Life Church a tearful congregation hears from its fallen minister, and recommits itself to battling the enemy with prayer and political fervor.
Sunday, Nov 5, 2006 8:00 PM UTC 146News
Equality before God
The short-term and long-term fallout from the Haggard scandal.
Friday, Nov 3, 2006 9:43 PM UTC 46Politics War Room
Dude, where’s my cross?
Stephen Baldwin preaches to teens that Bono is in league with Satan. Don't laugh, the born-again actor is a cultural advisor to Bush and one of the most popular new evangelists in the country.
Monday, Oct 9, 2006 12:30 PM UTC 178Life
Come as you are
At Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Snoop Dogg figures in sermons, housewives cradle babies in tattooed arms -- and religious fundamentalism rules. Meet the Disciple Generation, the fierce new face of American evangelism.
Wednesday, Sep 13, 2006 12:00 PM UTC 249Life
Fired by the Bible
After 54 years, a Sunday school teacher is fired. Why? For being a woman.
Monday, Aug 21, 2006 7:29 PM UTC 54Life Broadsheet, Love and Sex
Hearts broken, hands full
Men who became widowers and single fathers on Sept. 11 struggle with crushing grief and the relentless demands of running a family.
Thursday, Dec 6, 2001 8:30 PM UTCLife
The trauma to come
A city reels -- and braces for the psychic fallout of its monstrous ordeal.
Thursday, Oct 4, 2001 7:38 PM UTCLife
Now more than ever
Witnessing hell has made me a born-again atheist.
Friday, Sep 14, 2001 10:10 PM UTCLife Atheism
Throbbing hearts and thumping Bibles
Christian authors are staking their claim on pop culture's steamiest preserve: Romance novels.
Thursday, Jul 12, 2001 7:00 PM UTCEntertainment Books
Lauren Sandler is Salon's Life editor and the author of "Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement."
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