Salvation, Purity, and Right Wing Activism: A Sampling of What Taxpayers Will Be Forced to Support as a Result of Carson v. Makin SCOTUS Ruling
The two Christian schools at the center of Carson v. Makin—the case in which the…
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Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?
Most of us don’t want to grow up to be our parents, especially when we’re…
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This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence
World Refugee Day on June 20, 2022 recognizes the more than 100 million asylum seekers,…
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Republican Lauren Boebert Jokes About AR-15s and Jesus — And Yes, She’s a ‘Real’ Christian
In the aftermath of the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings—and the 54 mass shootings (and counting)…
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With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
A major shakeup at the highest levels in the Russian Orthodox Church is offering new…
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At This Week’s Meeting, Will SBC Vote For Voddie Baucham, The Homeschooling ‘Star’ Who Embraces the Right Wing Theology at the Heart of the Abuse Scandal?
On March 4, news broke that African Christian University dean Voddie Baucham was asked to…
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We May Be Sacrificing Our Children to the God of the Gun — But it’s Not That the God Requires the Deaths
You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane…
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Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade
In the wake of every mass shooting in this country, we have a brief moment…
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Transphobic and Anti-Abortion Policies are a Direct Threat to My Religious Freedom
The Public Religion Research Institute recently highlighted an important statistic: nearly all Unitarian Universalists (97…
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The SBC Sexual Abuse Scandal is a ‘Success’ Story of the Theological Vision and Social Structure of the ‘Conservative Resurgence’
I don’t recall the specific date in late summer 1985—but I remember exactly where I…
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