Stories by Jeannette Batz Cooperman
An award-winning journalist in the alternative press for more than a decade, Jeannette Batz Cooperman holds a doctorate in American studies and writes regularly on religious and spiritual issues for the National Catholic Reporter.
Look a little closer at the “Jesus didn’t turn people away” ad and you see the central religious conflict of our time: literal versus metaphorical understanding.
Posted on Dec 23, 2004
I must abandon the solace of thinking my political opponents benighted, uneducated and cognitively impaired. But I refuse to think them more moral.
Posted on Nov 5, 2004
“When people think of the relation of Christianity to the political scene, they think of the right rather than the left,” says one expert. Here is a look at the rise in evangelism that’s tipping the country Republican.
Posted on Oct 28, 2004
