Meet the New (Straight White American Male) Mormon President
On Tuesday, Russell M. Nelson, a 93-year-old retired heart surgeon, was announced as the seventeenth…
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#Churchtoo: Apology of Evangelical Pastor Accused of Sexual Assault Shows Why Sorry Isn’t Enough
As the #metoo movement shines a necessary, long overdue light on men in the workplace…
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Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities
This is how quickly it happened. One moment we were passing sumptuous kebob platters around…
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Religious Freedom Historian John Ragosta on “Religious Freedom”
To listen to the Christian Right, which has been busy seeking religious exemptions from laws governing…
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#ItsNotUs: Being Evangelical Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry
The defenders of “respectable” evangelicalism were out in force in 2017. In newspapers, magazines, and…
Read More2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People
Journalist Masha Gessen dubbed 2017 “the year Russian LGBT persecution defied belief.” Pink News called…
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Will 2018 Be the Year of Catholic Health Care Dominance?
The news that two major Catholic health care systems, Ascension and Providence St. Joseph Health,…
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Dear Timothy Keller: The “Evangelical” Problem isn’t Pollsters
In response to the public identity crisis voiced by some white evangelicals since Donald Trump’s…
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The Year in Religion: A Ray of Hope Amid the Usual Fecklessness
Taking my cue from the revised pater noster commended by His Holiness, I begin by…
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The Top 10 (Non-Religious) Religious Films of 2017
Cinema and religion are never far apart—both bring light to darkened places. Sometimes the illumination…
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