Maybe Instead of Solidarity, The Religious Left Should Try Being Indivisible
If I were asked to briefly summarize my various critiques of the religious left, I’d…
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Black Pastor Who Introduced SBC Resolution Against Alt-Right Assumed It Would Be a “Slam Dunk”
The Texas pastor who drafted the original resolution calling on the Southern Baptist Convention to…
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The New Religious Left: A Marketing Dream or Political Reality?
The religious left movement is stuck between the universalism of its aims and the particularity of the people who constitute it.
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New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media
With Catholic commentators writing about the “threat” of Islam, it’s no surprise many U.S. Catholics have negative views of Muslims
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Ainslie Embree’s Gift to Religious Studies
When the preeminent historian, Ainslie Embree, died last week at age 96, he was lauded for…
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Southern Baptist Convention Kicks Out Gay Attendees, Waffles on White Supremacists
While the Southern Baptist Convention considers whether or not to denounce white supremacy and the…
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Another Far Right Theocrat Shows up on the Trump Team
Jay Sekulow has been making the rounds at right-wing media outlets (Fox, PJ Media, WND,…
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Scottish Episcopal Church Angers Conservative Anglicans With Embrace of Same-Sex Marriage; and more in Global LGBT Recap
The Global Interfaith Network on Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression has published an…
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Pence’s Prayer Breakfast Appearance Underscores Fractured American Catholicism
The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is hardly a bipartisan or nonpolitical event. It was…
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Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book
A few years ago, the idea of a “celebrity Jesuit” would have puzzled most Americans….
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