The Culture War is (Not) Over
New atheist Daniel Dennet joined Charles Taylor and a host of others gathered at the New School Conference on the religious/secular divide, predicting a complex future for the culture wars.
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Allowable Discrimination?
Obama seems to be backpedaling on the issue of “allowable discrimination.” Appropriating tax dollars to bigoted faith groups is not the change we were looking for.
Read MoreKeeping Property, Losing People
California Supreme Court rules that congregations who split from their denominations must give up their property. Not a good thing for churches, or churchgoers.
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The Religious Right’s Apocalyptic Visions of an Obama Presidency
Dr. James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Action circulates a “Letter from 2012 in Obama’s America,” depicting a doomsday scenario of Bible banning, a disbanded Boy Scouts, taxpayer-funded abortion, gay marriage from coast to coast, talk radio outlawed, God expunged from the public sphere, and, gulp, no guns.
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South Carolina Christian License Plates Blocked For Now
Why is this Christian license plate different from all other vanity plates?
Read MoreIRS to Rule on Preaching to the Converted
Several pastors are challenging the prohibition against making endorsements from the pulpit. But is there anyone who doesn’t know who their pastor is pulling for?
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