SCOTUS’s Incoherent Masterpiece Cakeshop Decision
If you had to choose a word to describe the news of today’s Supreme Court…
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SBC’s #MeToo Problem Isn’t a Rotten Apple, It’s a Rotten Theological Tree
Albert Mohler, known colloquially as “Al,” is the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in…
Read MoreCalling Trump’s Bee-Smitten Christians: You Think You Know What “Koinonia” Means?
Let’s have the required etymological look at the winning word and get it over with:…
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Without Judgment Day or Karma How Does a Humanist Confront ‘Trump Funk’?
Like all progressives, Trump’s victory in 2016 sent me into a funk. Now, as the…
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The Tense History Behind Jimmy Carter’s Liberty U. Commencement Address
Last year Donald Trump delivered the commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. Jerry…
Read MoreTrump, “Big Fan of Hindu,” To Force Thousands of Nepalis Back to Disaster Zone
With Trump’s cancellation of protected status, the Nepali quake survivors who reached the US will have to return to a country that has so far failed to recover from the devastation.
Read MoreTony Perkins will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission
While Perkins has expressed interest in using his new position as an opportunity to support “religious freedom and the defense of religious minorities,” he might find that the USCIRF actually doesn’t require a significant change in focus from his own preoccupations with Christians’ rights.
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Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission
At first glance, Tony Perkins, who recently complained that the Secretary of State isn’t doing enough…
Read MoreMust We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine
If we think about Catonsville not just as a curiosity, a minor episode in the history of radical chic, but as a provocation or a template, what do we learn? Must Americans burn something to get attention? Must religious protesters be arrested?
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Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine
Fifty years ago today, the Catonsville Nine burned draft files at the local draft board…
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