New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
Four weeks after the January 6th insurrection, two leaders of the revivalist New Apostolic Reformation…
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Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
Breaking up is hard to do, and I am not at all prepared to discard…
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What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
While his name may not be familiar to most Americans, for 40 years, between 1873…
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Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
As discussed earlier this week on RD, the Orthodox Church in America recently released an…
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Stalked by The Plague, ‘The Maiden of All Our Desires’ Follows a Medieval Abbey at a Time When Monastic Life Was a Refuge for Women
A woman disappears, “taken by wind.” A one-eyed priest frantically carves a feminine-looking crucifix for…
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If the Family Research Council is a ‘Church’ I’m a #TaxTheChurches Supporter
Like other authoritarians, right-wing Christians often prefer to minimize transparency in order to avoid accountability….
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Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
Late last week, the Orthodox Church in America, the second largest Orthodox church body in…
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Odd Comments by Michigan Football Coach Reveal Who Anti-Abortion Christians Think They’re Defending
This past Sunday, at a “Right to Life dinner and auction” in a Detroit suburb,…
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Caught in a Fever Dream of Originalism, Can SCOTUS Majority Learn the Lessons of Early America Before it’s Too Late?
The separation of church and state feels like bedrock in America. It is, after all,…
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Meditation Sickness: Everyone is Talking About How Nobody is Talking About The Risks of Meditation
There are some visible signs that particular Buddhist communities in the United States are beginning…
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