Satanic Temple Attorney Discusses Cancelled Scottsdale Prayer Invite
This week, on the 22nd and 23rd of January, The Satanic Temple (TST) and the…
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MLK Monument That Never Was, is a Reminder of the King Too Often Ignored
During the controversy surrounding the selection of a design for the Martin Luther King Jr….
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Christian Nationalists Aim to Dismantle this Core Freedom
As Frederick Clarkson noted on RD earlier this week, every January 16 we celebrate Religious…
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Don’t Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom
On January 16 we celebrate Religious Freedom Day to commemorate what may be the most…
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Whistleblower Alleges $100B Hoarding Scandal by LDS Church; But There’s An Easy Fix
The Mormon church’s recently unearthed $100 billion stash should tell Congress it’s time to close…
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‘Christianity Today’ Pro-Impeachment Editorial Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Galli and other religious intellectuals do not represent a broad evangelical constituency. They believe what Jesus believed: what’s good for me is also good for you, and all of us are equal before the eyes of God. That is deeply contrary to the authoritarian mindset.
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A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
Since the turn of this century, following the news is like experiencing a daily repudiation…
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Unimpeachable Office Politics
The following is concerned only with office politics. It is certainly not a commentary…
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Books to Give this Holiday Season to Help Understand the World We’ve Found Ourselves in (and to Help Reimagine a Better One)
As we say goodbye to a truly dystopian year (and then some), here is a…
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Is Bill Barr’s Belief in a Powerful President Actually Religious? A ‘High Papal’ Fable
A new book aims to show how Christianity continues to shape the West in unseen ways. But one scholar believes a more accurate summary of the argument is that modern secular society is actually saturated in a deep Roman Catholic ethos, which notably includes the doctrine of strong papal authority.
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