‘Empty the Pews’ Chronicles the ‘Nurtured Insanity’ of a Fundamentalist Upbringing
There is a great exodus taking place in Christian circles. Can it be called a…
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Religious Leaders Need ‘Empty the Pews’ Which Chronicles the Darker Side of the ‘Nones’ Phenomenon
In 2020, the rise of the so-called religious “Nones”—those who claim no religious affiliation—has evolved…
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Klobuchar Feeds Trolls with Pro-Life Outreach
Of course some Democrat took the bait from the Dems-for-Life types, because of course they…
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Mormon Statement on Feminism is Relevant and Timely… But Only by Coincidence
“What is the Church’s stance on feminism?” This is the question addressed in a brief anonymous…
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A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade
Since the turn of this century, following the news is like experiencing a daily repudiation…
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‘Purity’ Guru Joshua Harris May Have Left Evangelicalism But He’s Still a Member of the Church of Patriarchy
Though he’s embarked on an apology tour and starred in a documentary examining his mistakes and the damage they’ve caused, Joshua Harris has yet to face the hard questions about the patriarchal ideology that shaped the purity movement and his own path.
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What Does the Catholic Church’s Patriarchal Structure Have to Do with the Failure of the Amazon Synod?
Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix.
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Catholic Anti-Nuke Activists Looking at 20 Years in Prison a True Test for Religious Freedom
Either sincere religious conviction should be a defense, or it shouldn’t. There should be a healthy debate about religious exemptions in a pluralistic society, but not about the content of the religious conviction concerned.
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Anti-Transgender Panel at Values Voter Summit Continues Shift Towards Storytelling as Tactic
Religious conservatives have begun to employ heartbreaking stories of people who have detransitioned to bolster the same old misinterpreted statistics and discredited studies that have propped up the infrastructure of anti-trans advocacy for years.
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Hiring of Accused Atheist Leader Is Reminder That #MeToo Is Still Needed in Organized Atheism
Far from being a refuge from religious tyranny, mainstream atheism is just another microcosm of American gender and racial hierarchies.
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