Is Being Trans a Religion? Why the Christian Right Wants You to Think So
Have you noticed how common it is for right-wingers to describe things they oppose in…
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The ‘Health Freedom Movement’ Enters the Covid Era by Disseminating Medical Disinformation
“Are imperfect people welcome in the health freedom movement?” asks an email sitting presumptuously at the…
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Not Peace, But Division? Evangelical Vaccine Refusers Divide Families
A friend of mine was raised in a family that was quirky, sarcastic, into alternative…
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What Facebook Unwittingly Reveals in its Ban of LifeSiteNews for Covid Misinformation
Facebook’s ban of LifeSiteNews a notoriously ultraconservative website that regularly spreads disinformation about abortion—for its…
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Good News: Religious Outreach Works On Vaccine Hesitancy. Bad News: We Need It.
A new report from PRRI on religious attitudes toward Covid vaccination contains much that makes…
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Our Last “Genius” Stephen Hawking is Gone… Cause for Worry Or Inspiration?
Our last genius, Stephen Hawking, died early Wednesday morning at his home in Cambridge, England…
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How Men’s Rights Activists Are Finding Unlikely Allies in New Atheism: #MeToo, the Manosphere, and the “Church of Feminism”
Anyone familiar with the Internet’s “Manosphere” will be unsurprised to learn that “Red Pillers” and…
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Is Christianity Greening? Depends On Who (and How) You Ask
One of the most vexing questions to confront Christians in this post-Christendom age is how…
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Elaine Howard Ecklund Wants to Dispel Myths Surrounding Religious Resistance to Science
Sociologist Elaine Howard Ecklund studies the intersection of religion and science in Houston, a city…
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Pathological Optimist Documentary Makes a Medical Martyr of Anti-Vax Crusader
Every day brings a new tsunami of bullshit, a giant wave of lies flattening our…
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