Red and blue God, black and blue church
Subtitle: eyewitness accounts of how American churches are hijacking Jesus, bagging the Beatitudes, and worshiping the almighty dollar
By: Becky Garrison ; foreword by Robert Darden.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2006
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780787983130
Subjects: Christianity and politics -- United States.; Christianity and culture -- United States.; United States -- Church history -- 21st century.
Description: Becky Garrison takes aim at the battles between the warring political factions in America's churches, and illuminates both the plank in the Religious Right's eye as well as the speck that blinds the progressive Left.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-173).
Table of contents: title: The greatest commandment of all; title: Guns, God, n ground zero; title: Christian hospitality, RNC style; title: How would Jesus vote?; title: Bless n bag Bambi; title: Too queer for words; title: Jews n Gentiles; title: Do public schools have a prayer?; title: Get a life; title: Bagging the Beatitudes and worshiping the almighty dollar; title: Where is the love?; title: Jesus loves me, this I know; title: Epilogue: where do we go from here?.