Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.