Sen. John Danforth on Conservative Politics and Moderate Religion

John Danforth is an Episcopal priest and a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations. He served for 18 years as a Republican Senator from Missouri and a special envoy to Sudan for President Bush.

Politics driven by a religious agenda, Danforth says, is true neither to his understanding of Christian faith nor to the traditional values of the Republican party. This veteran politician speaks about the values that have helped him navigate the line between private faith and public life and his current concerns about religion in his own party and in the world.

Listen to an interview Sen Danforth gave to the Public Radio program "Speaking Of Faith" released Sept. 8, 2005.

USA Today - Focus on Faith

That is the title of a series of opinions published weekely in USA Today.

"Faith. Religion. Spirituality. Increasingly those words are part of public life - a controversial part. Every Monday, writers of varying perspectives seek to illuminate the issues."

You find entires from liberal to conservative. They are very eye opening.

Take a look at "A moral battleground, a civil discourse" by Charles C. Haynes, the co-author of Finding Common Ground: A Guide to Religious Liberty in Public Schools