What the Hail: Satanists Got Busy in 2018
From defending reproductive rights to run-ins with several TV shows, the Satanist community had a busy 2018. The only question going forward: Will internal tension sink the movement?
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2018: Wave Goodbye to Another Year in Religion
From sexual abuse to white nationalism, a fake rabbi, atheists behaving badly, and politicized pastries, 2018 had little going for it on the religion front.
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Ringing in a Christian Nationalist 2019 With an Even Larger Legislative Playbook
A Christian nationalist coalition, including the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, has published a new state legislative playbook for 2019 that’s 30 percent larger, and 100 percent as committed to a nation that reflects its sectarian values.
Read MoreReligious Freedom Manifesto Calls for Compromise and Civility—What’s So Wrong With That?
Behind earnestly worded appeals for religious freedom and respect is a pretense that the Framers of the Constitution and the First Amendment somehow intended to justify discrimination against others.
Read MoreThere’s Just One Problem With Upcoming Evangelical Summit on Sexual Violence
In focusing on a pastoral response, the GC2 Summit risks replicating many of the same issues of insularity that created the need for #ChurchToo in the first place.
Read MoreWhy White Evangelical Women Aren’t the Swing Voters They Sometimes Appear to Be
Even as many white evangelical women speak about traditionally liberal topics, they refuse to openly discuss America’s deep political divides.
Read MoreCatholic Bishops’ Religious Liberty Fight Enables Anti-Jewish Discrimination (Updated)
It’s not hard to extend the bishops’ logic on discrimination against LGBTQ foster parents to the assertion that Christian social services agencies shouldn’t be “discriminated” against for refusing to work with Jews and Muslims.
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Religious Freedom May Now Include Discrimination Against Jews and Muslims
South Carolina governor Henry McMaster moved to protect Miracle Hill and other agencies that want to to discriminate against Jews and others and continue to receive government funding.
Read MoreDC Attorney General Goes ‘Religious Freedom’ Route to Investigate Catholic Church
Any felony activity the DC attorney general discovers in the course of his investigation could be forwarded to the U.S. attorney.
Read MoreIs This Finally the Reckoning for the Catholic Church on Sexual Abuse?
A Justice Department investigation marks a major turning point in the decades-long sexual abuse crisis, but there are indications the Church will not surrender without a fight.
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