Religious Freedom Historian John Ragosta on “Religious Freedom”
To listen to the Christian Right, which has been busy seeking religious exemptions from laws governing…
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Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org
One of the nation’s largest campus ministries has demanded that its LGBT-affirming staff quit by November 11th.
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An Open Letter To American Muslims on Same-Sex Marriage
Update: Listen to an episode of BBC’s “World Have Your Say” devoted to Reza…
Read MoreThe Theological Hijacking of Religious “Freedom”
If I were Steve Inskeep, here’s how the conversation might have gone.
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RD is nominated for a Webby for best Religion and Spirituality site!
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What Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Says About White Christian Nationalism and The Politics of Repression
Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE…
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Is America in 2025 What ‘Disenchantment’ Looks Like?
I’ve always found the performative use of religious language, as an excoriation or a scold,…
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A Movement to Destroy U.S. Democracy Controls the Presidency, Congress, and the Supreme Court—But What’s Behind It?
The man in the MAGA cap and the “Size Matters” T-shirt allowed me to take…
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Why Did Trump Just Tell Reporters that Chuck Schumer ‘Is Not Jewish Anymore,’ That He ‘Has Become a Palestinian’?
At a press conference today responding to a question about the possibility of Democratic support…
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Trump’s Pick for FDA Commissioner Hedges on the Abortion Pill, which is safer than Tylenol, Viagra, or giving birth
During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans…
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With Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Board, Christian Right Dream to Wrestle Public Schools into Submission in Sight (Updated 3/20)
Compared to Donald Trump’s prior term in office, the current Trump administration looks different. The…
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The President’s Noxious Treatment of Zelensky Makes More Sense if We See Donald Trump Himself as a Gun
Writing in The Atlantic on the disastrous February 28 meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President…
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Exalted Insurrectionists, Kremlin-Friendly Bombast, and a Smattering of Nazi Salutes — Notes from CPAC 2025
Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism…
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Even RFK’s More Benign-Sounding Rhetoric is Rooted in the Dangerous Ideology Set to Guide U.S. Health Policy
Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Measles-dismisser, nepo-baby, bear cub-dumper, and vaccine skeptic,…
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‘Clever Girl’ Explains Why Dinosaurs are Queer and Feminist — and Jurassic Park is a Toolkit for the Apocalypse
Everything happens so much these days, and so very much of it is very bad…
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