Blaming Young People For the Fall of Roe is Like Holding Firefighters Accountable for Arson
“Sometimes I’m irrationally mad at younger women,” wrote the acclaimed television critic and Pulitzer Prize…
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Exactly 30 Years Before Illinois AG’s Devastating Sexual Abuse Report, a Plan for Prevention was Implemented, Then Scrapped
“Way too damned little and way too damned late.” That’s what one life-long Illinois Catholic…
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Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism
In February 2023, Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, appeared in Dharamshala, India at an…
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What We Need to Understand is that Fascism is Intersectional and Erotic—’Thy Rod is Thy Gun,’ With a Hip-Thrust
In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about…
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Hell in a Cell: ‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ Reflects the Growing Belief That Cocksure Men Will Save Us in the Battle of Good v. Evil
Although it was a financial success, The Pope’s Exorcist, featuring a virile Russell Crowe as…
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New Data Strongly Suggest a Correlation Between Disaffiliation and Christianity’s Association with the U.S. Right
For centuries, American evangelical Protestants have been obsessed with religious ‘revival.’ Fear of ostensible societal,…
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Turning Point Efforts to Export Drag Queen Attacks and ‘Take Back Universities’ Marred by Fringe Associations and Farcical Missteps
Bullhorns and chants fill the air. Conservatives are gathered to protest a drag show. Mothers…
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In its Battle for ‘Life’ the Antiabortion Movement is Willing to Expose its Enemies to Death — And There’s an Old Christian Theology that Supports Them
The recent Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn the FDA’s approval of mifepristone presents itself—in…
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Dragged Through the Mud: This Little Church-Backed Support Group for LGBTQ Teens Suffered Bomb Threats, Smears and the Cancellation of its Drag Show
“Twenty years ago I thought now would be better. And it’s not.” That’s how Tiffany…
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Catholic Groups Leading Mifepristone Ban Are Part of Century-Long Tradition Who See it as Patriotic Duty to Protect the Family
In 1995, following a spate of lethal violence against abortion providers across the United States,…
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