(RNS) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — a political independent, a socialist and possibly the most liberal member of Congress — may be a cultural Jew, but he's campaigned on the idea that people of faith and those with strong moral values can stand together.
He even took his pitch — that the separation of church and state honors diversity and respects autonomy — to conservative evangelicals at Jerry-Falwell-founded Liberty University.
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Throughout her 2016 presidential campaign, one facet of Hillary Clinton, 68, has been unchanging. She was, is and likely always will be a social-justice-focused Methodist.
This has been evident across her decades as a lawyer, first lady, senator and secretary of state right up to her passionate response to a question about faith at a Democrats Town Hall a week before the Iowa caucus. Clinton drew her answer from her Bible, where, she said, she learned, "The most important commandment is to love the Lord with all your might and to love your neighbor as yourself, and that is what I think we are commanded by Christ to do."
