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Report from Indianapolis Kevin Jones, November 2, 2002 "Isn't it amazing how the liberals took over the denominations?" "Yes but now God¹s people are going to take them back." Overheard in the hall at the Confessing the Faith conference in Indianapolis October 24-26, a gathering of conservative mainline Protestants. When I told someone about my trip to Indianapolis to report on the conservative Episcopalians, United Methodists, Presbyterians and United Church of Christ members gathered for the Confessing the Faith Conference, he asked, "Do they really think they are working for peace and justice?" The answer is, "no, not at all."...

The Decalogue And The Demagogue Lessons From Alabama Now that the media circus created by Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore and his Ten Commandments display has died down, it’s a good time to step back and debunk some oft-repeated Religious Right assertions about this case: • Moore’s display of the Ten Commandments was a courageous act. It wasn’t. It was the act of an aspiring theocrat and religious zealot. This country does not have religious courts or anything like them. When you come before a judge, your age, sex, race and religion should be irrelevant. What you believe...