Satanic Temple’s ‘Satanic Abortion Ritual’ May Challenge States’ Anti-Abortion Laws
Last week, The Satanic Temple (TST) introduced “the Satanic Abortion Ritual”—a ritual designed to provide…
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Why ‘Respectable’ Evangelicals Can’t Rein in Evangelical Conspiracy Theorists
According to a recent blog post by David French, former staff writer for the National…
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No “Cancel Culture” on the Right: How Conservative Christians Protect the Powerful
This week, Harper’s Magazine set off a firestorm by publishing “A Letter on Justice and…
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Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse
In her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, the philosopher Kate Manne coined…
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Methodist Church’s ‘Dismantling Racism Initiative’ Excludes Some Black Lives
On one of the most sacred days of observance in African American history, Juneteenth, the…
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How an 1843 Revelation on Polygamy Poses a Serious Challenge to Modern Mormonism
This week, new legislation goes into effect in Utah that decriminalizes polygamy among consenting adults….
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How a Stars and Stripes Hijab on ‘Rupaul’s Drag Race’ Reveals America’s Troubling Relationship to Gender, Ethnicity and ‘That’ Religion
Honestly, we blame ourselves. We should have known that releasing an episode of Keeping It…
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New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country
“Our [Founding] Fathers intended that this nation should be a Christian nation, not because all…
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What’s So Scary About the Inclusion of ‘God’ in the Russian Constitution?
Last Friday, the House’s Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights heard testimony that Russia’s human…
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New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn’t Make a Whole Lot of Sense
I was raised in the LDS Church. In fact, I’m a sixth-generation Mormon. Or, rather,…
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