Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Both Barack Obama and John McCain have religious allies who have made controversial, and sometimes flat-out ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. During a 2005 sermon, a fundamentalist pastor whom Senator John McCain has praised ...

The last days of May will be remembered as the time of the long knives in John McCain’s camp, a period that saw the presumptive Republican candidate for president purge his crusade of its most overtly ...

McCain rejected Pastor Rod Parsley's endorsement late Thursday. May 22, 2008— -- Despite his call for the U.S. to win the "hearts and minds of the Islamic world," Sen. John McCain recruited the ...

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Republican John McCain yesterdayrepudiated the support of Rod Parsley, an Ohio preacher who has sharply criticized Islam and called the religion inherently violent. “I believe ...

From the lavishly decorated pulpit of his 12,000-member World Harvest Church here in Canal Winchester, Ohio, Rod Parsley had but one central message for his flock this morning, the Sunday before the ...

On Thursday, John McCain rejected the endorsement of one his most controversial supporters, Pastor John Hagee. He didn’t wait long before rejecting another, Rod Parsley. Parsley, a preacher based at a ...

Presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain has rejected the political endorsements of two megachurch pastors after learning more about their disparaging views of other faiths. The Arizona ...