Old White Dudes Tell the Democrats to Forget about Abortion
Writing in the New York Times, Thomas Groome, a professor of theology at Boston College,…
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Is The Religious Left Emerging as a Political Force? No.
You ever hear the saying, “same shit, different day”? I’m reminded of that very phrase…
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Duterte Cites Catholic Heritage in Opposing Marriage Equality, and More in the Global LGBT Recap
In conjunction with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference, the University of California Press…
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Will Church Attendance Reduce Bigotry? A Response to Peter Beinart
We’re studying theories of baptism in the college course I teach on prayer, worship, and…
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Storytime with David Brooks: In Which the Liberals’ Favorite Conservative Gets Lost in a Lily-White History
Personal research conducted among my lefty friends shows that for many liberals, reading David Brooks…
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You Are What You Eat: New Book on Cannibalism Reimagines What It Means to Be Made of Flesh
Bill Schutt’s new book, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, is a startling reminder of how strange…
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Satanists Take Aim at School Spanking
There’s a connection between hitting children and cultural identity. Growing up in Austin, Texas, I…
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Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap
As the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) got underway last Monday (it…
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How the Catholic Church Broke the Health Insurance it Advocated For
It was one of the more remarkable moments in the saga of the “repeal/replace” of…
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Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap
ILGA notes that some women in more than 50 countries went on strike on Wednesday’s…
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