At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language
U.S. conservatives join forces with authoritarian regimes at the UN to resist LGBTQ rights
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Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza
During an American University panel on the recent war in Gaza earlier this month, Rabbi…
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Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40
This year, 2014, is the 40th anniversary of the game Dungeons & Dragons, the pen-and-paper…
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Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?
In his September 10th address, President Obama asserted that the Islamic State is neither Islamic nor…
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The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight
It struck me, when reading Brook Wilensky-Lanford’s review of Magic in the Moonlight—in which she notes…
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Marriage is for Everybody, Says Former Anti-Gay Evangelical
An RD interview by Candace Chellew-Hodge
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Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered
Joerg Rieger, a leading theological thinker in relation to economic injustice, is also a principal presenter…
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What Does Proper Christian Womanhood Have to do with the Ray Rice Story?
In 1882, the state of Maryland adopted an “Act to inflict Corporal Punishment upon Persons…
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No Zombies Here, Just a Bunch of Women Talking to the Dead
What inspired you to write Talking to the Dead? I vividly recall the experiences that…
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LGBT-Friendly Church is Not “Christian” Enough?
It’s easier to argue about Jesus and whether he was fully human, fully divine, both or some mixture thereof, instead of doing the dirty work of feeding the poor, etc.
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