“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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Biggest, Best & Worst LGBT Religion Stories of 2016 and more in Global LGBT Recap
At People For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch blog this week, I posted highlights…
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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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In Case You Missed Them, the Top Pope Francis Quotes of 2016
He’s had a weird year.
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Teaching World Religion in the Dumpster Fire
How different might this election cycle have been had more voters been willing to be curious about, understand, accept, or even embrace a pluralist nation, rather than panic in the face of the other?
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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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Morality and Marriage Vigilantes and More in Global LGBT Recap
LGBT news from around the world
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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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6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun
There are bright spots in the Muslim world, but a sense of ominousness is inescapable. It doesn’t just seem like the Arab Spring is over, but that the winter is here to stay.
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