Why Being “Faith Friendly” Isn’t Worth It For Democrats
Religion and the social issues it stands in for are about the last things anybody votes on. People vote their race, then their pocketbook, then their need for national security.
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“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home
There’s beauty in mythology, to be sure. But there is also grave danger in believing mythologies can save broken institutions.
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Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017
Is the eve of Trump era the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb?
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These Are the New Battlegrounds for LGBT Rights Under Trump
As Inauguration Day nears, and as our new, orange-tinted reality sets in, it behooves all Americans…
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Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017
Readers are urged to quarrel with this list or make up their own list. The point is to keep hope alive.
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Year-End Best Books in Race and Religion in American History
With all the memes wishing a good riddance to 2016, and John Oliver’s epic send-off…
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You Fix This Mess: Post-Election, Evangelicals of Color Disappointed in White Evangelicals
“I think the white church has to do some self-examination to see whether they are in line with the Gospel or just pushing a civil religion.”
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A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America
My prayer for 2017, then, is simple: I pray that we, the people, live up to the brave and beautiful example the rebels, the resisters, and the agitators have set for us.
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Time to Face Facts: White Evangelicalism Has Always Been Right Wing
Even the protests of progressive evangelicals themselves offer proof that progressive initiatives have never be more than an aberration to the overwhelming prevalence of evangelical conservatism.
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Call Yourself Evangelical, Isaiah 11, or Orville Redenbacher, But Don’t Organize Under it
What I care about is that a vulgar-talking yam-fascist and his allied goons in Congress are about to savage the American state and the nation it’s supposed to serve.
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