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...Romney has a much more extensive organization in terms of manpower," says Steve Scheffler, president of the Iowa Christian Alliance, who is not endorsing a candidate this cycle. Evangelicals, who make up about 40% of GOP caucusgoers, are drawn to Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist pastor. But Romney has a formidable head start signing them up. Huckabee is scrambling to gain ground, recently taping an interview with a Christian media company--for a small fraction of the cost of television advertising--that churches and congregants can download and watch. And he's counting on the organizational prowess of his homeschooling...
...editor in chief of the project to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, esteemed biblical scholar John Strugnell was under pressure to speed up the Scrolls' publication. In an interview, Strugnell, who had started studying the Scrolls four decades earlier at age 23, called Judaism a "horrible religion" and "Christian heresy." In the furor that followed, his family disclosed he was battling manic depression and alcoholism. Though he was the first editor to include Jewish scholars in the translation project--and he insisted he was not anti-Semitic--Strugnell was fired and irreparably discredited...
...october the Republican Presidential candidates spoke before social conservatives, mostly Evangelicals, at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit. The event was awkward for several of the contenders. Mitt Romney's Mormonism does not go over well with all evangelical Christians. Rudy Giuliani is pro-choice. John McCain famously called some Christian conservatives "agents of intolerance" during his 2000 presidential campaign...
Previous evangelical politicians have run as single-issue candidates opposed to abortion. Huckabee isn't doing that. But he is very nearly a single-constituency candidate. His ads tout him as a "Christian leader," and he says that being a pastor is "pretty good preparation to lead a country." Asked to explain his rise in the polls, he invokes God's blessing...
...Sunday.“You better be able to work hard and you better be able to handle data and making presentations to lots of audiences,” she said. “But that’s typical for any dean.”—Christian B. Flow and Clifford M. Marks contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...