The Tyranny of Politeness
Despots require and usually get an excess of politeness. But in the face of gross evil and injustice too much politeness is servile, ignoble, and base.
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Why Feminism’s Big Tent Isn’t Big Enough for the Anti-Abortion Movement
Those big, bad pro-abortion feminists! To hear it from even stalwarts of the mainstream liberal…
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir Will Usher In the Trump Era
Their decision to participate in Trump’s inauguration epitomizes the Church’s priority of fitting within their surrounding culture, even at the expense of contrasting and competing values.
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Right Wing Christians and Radical Feminists Form an Odd (Transphobic) Couple
The fact that this faction has shown itself willing to align with far-right religious groups that oppose much of the fundamental feminist doctrine betrays a twisted set of priorities.
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White Christian Complaints About Religious Persecution Are Especially Ugly on MLK Day
The claims of religious persecution, particularly by cisgender, straight white men who run multi-million-dollar advocacy groups, are especially heinous on a day intended to commemorate Dr. King’s life.
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With the Death of One of the Last Three Shakers, an American Religious Tradition Takes a Step Closer to Extinction
For the Shakers, God’s gender was always understood as dualistic, as containing both the masculine and the feminine, and leadership was often matriarchal.
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Talking With the “Religious Terrorist” that Turkey Wants Trump to Extradite
Turkey wants Fethullah Gulen extradited to face charges that he was involved in the failed coup attempt against the Turkish strong man, Recip Erdogan, several months ago.
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Rev. William Barber Calls Jeff Sessions Nomination A “Moral Crisis”
Interfaith clergy group urges Senate to reject Sessions’ attorney general nomination
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Will “Church Militants” Be Marching for Trump?
Conservative interpretations of Catholic theology are often more influential on the religious and political right than they’re often given credit for.
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Trickle-Down Metaphysics and the Dawn of a Trumpian New Age
The complex of American individualism and optimism encompasses both prosperity gospel Christians and California yogis, who may often have more in common than they realize.
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