The End of Roe and the Assault on Trans People — Fail to See the Bigger Picture and We’ll Never Be Free
In March, the State of Texas sent investigators to Amber and Adam Briggle’s home, saying…
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Black Satanist Candidate Faces LA Sheriff Shakedown
Steve Hill is a lot of things: A former marine, a former correctional officer, a…
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Chicago Synagogue Excoriated For Shift From ‘Non’ to ‘Anti’ Zionism — Maybe the Problem isn’t the ‘Anti’ But the ‘Zionism’
Progressive synagogue Tzedek Chicago, founded in 2015 and led by Rabbi Brant Rosen, recently made…
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‘Always Pray to the Father’: Mormon Leader Calls Desire for Knowledge of Heavenly Mother ‘Arrogant and Unproductive’
In 1995, in a document called the Family Proclamation, leaders of The Church of Jesus…
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For Black Buddhists Struggling with Intergenerational Trauma of Slavery, Segregation, and Incarceration, Thich Nhat Hanh’s Teachings are Vital
Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk who joined the ancestors earlier this year, was…
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Douthat, Do Tell! Some Questions for a Columnist Longing for the Good Old Days of American Religion
Sometimes it’s as necessary as a bowel movement to point out how some very smart…
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‘Manufactured’ Smear Campaign Attempts to Intimidate Church ‘Fasting From Whiteness’— It Didn’t Work
This Lenten season, when the First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois gathered for Sunday…
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Honoring and Renewing Dr. King’s Other, More Challenging, Dream — 55 Years Later
Fifty-four years ago—on April 4, 1968—Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. Exactly one…
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The White Nationalist Fringe Just Took a Giant Step Closer to the Center of the GOP
“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit…
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Reactionary White Buddhists Have Joined The Fight Against Critical Race Theory
A recent article by conservative watchdog Campus Reform targeted my collaborative research talk on racial…
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