Rob Schwarzwalder

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  Oct 9, 2013

  Jim Wallis: His Flawed Arguments on the Shutdown, Bible and Justice

  The Bible is not a Rorschach block to which anyone, including Jim Wallis, can bring whatever interpretation he or she wishes.

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  Sep 12, 2013

  Exceptional America, Hypocritical Putin

  In an extraordinary op-ed in today's New York Times, Russian President Vladimir Putin – a former KGB agent – lectures our country and our president about many things, finishing with rather patronizing remarks about American exceptionalism and the equality of men.

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  Apr 9, 2013

  How Do We Measure 'Progressives?'

  Hillary Clinton has identified herself as a "progressive" because, she says, liberalism has come to be identified with "big government." Given the latter's apparent unpopularity, changing her political modifier seems prudent.

• Feb 4, 2013

  Boy Scouts Should Stand on Principle, Not Bow to Pressure

  The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) may be on the brink of eliminating their historic policy of not permitting openly homosexual leaders or Scouts. Although the new policy reportedly would still allow local Scout sponsors to maintain the traditional policy, homosexual activists will claim partial victory in their ongoing, and ironic, exercise of intolerance in the name of "tolerance" and forced uniformity in the name of "diversity."

• Jun 16, 2012

  A Response to Evangelical Calls for Public Withdrawal

  The disaffection of some younger believers toward political action seems animated by two factors: the reality that more has not been accomplished, despite decades of evangelical political activism, and the perception that evangelical social conservatives are an angry and bumptious lot characterized more by enflamed rhetoric than compassion or effectiveness.

• Nov 17, 2011

  Cizik is Wrong on Contraception and Overpopulation

  Sadly, my friend Rich Cizik is wrong, both about contraception and overpopulation.

• Jun 23, 2011

  Imperiled Religious Liberty, Abroad and At Home

  There is another dimension, an ironic one, to all of this: the Obama administration’s antipathy to religious liberty as practiced and experienced historically here in our own country.

• Apr 6, 2011

  Peter Gomes' Sad Mission

  Peter Gomes, Harvard's longtime professor of Christian morals and preacher at its on-campus Memorial Church, died at 68 on February 28. An elegant writer and passionate preacher, he acknowledged in 1991 that he was a homosexual and spent much of the next two decades arguing that homosexuality is condemned in Scripture not because of divine revelation but cultural bigotry.