Revealing Joseph Smith’s (Well-Known) Polygamy Doesn’t Address the LDS Church’s Bigger Problem
News that the LDS Church has now publicly acknowledged founder Joseph Smith’s polygamous marriage to…
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International “Religious Freedom” Agenda Will Only Embolden ISIS
International religious freedom has become the civilizing discourse of our time.
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Does ISIS Vindicate Pope Benedict’s Islam Remarks, as George Weigel Believes?
In September of 2006, His Holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sent seismic shockwaves through the…
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How Muslim Civic Activism Helped Pass California’s Prop 47
California mostly defied the rightward national trend in this week’s midterm elections. The victory of Proposition…
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Pro-LGBT Evangelical David Gushee: “I’m With You and the Church Needs to Change.”
David Gushee is thinking a lot about history. About social change, about civil rights movements,…
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8 Bill Maher Statements For UC Berkeley To Consider Before Commencement
The brouhaha over Bill Maher’s recent remarks about Islam and Muslims is growing weirder by…
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Fired GTS Professors Go Back to Work, For Now
When a seminary is in the news, two truisms apply: one, it is often bad…
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Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma
Does America have a moral obligation to a country that Christian perfectionism and ethnic cleansing helped to establish?
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Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson
How much is our view of justice determined by how we ourselves have been treated?
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We need raunchier stories that reflect how complex our Muslim lives really are.
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