Baptist Resolutions Signal More Culture War
Because of the outspoken opposition to Donald Trump by some of its leaders, and its…
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Catholic Bishops Vote to Double Down on Culture War
The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ vote to maintain their politically aggressive Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty…
Read MoreHow to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria
Time to take responsiblity—peacefully—for global well-being.
Read MoreTony Perkins: Atheists Can’t Be Chaplains
Harvard’s humanist chaplain disagrees… sort of.
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Gun Ownership as Sin—A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun Reform
Logic is the key to the story. In this case, once we know how many thousands of Americans are killed by guns each year and know that places with the fewest guns have the fewest murders, it’s only logical to regulate gun ownership and possession. But even the most convincing logic can rarely defeat a rich, emotionally powerfully, historically deep-rooted myth. And the gun control advocates’ progressive myth is depressingly thin and emotionally weak compared to the thick, potent store of myth wielded by their opponents.
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Which Islamists?: Religion and the Syrian Civil War
A scholar returning from a visit with Syrian opposition figures discusses the role of religion in the Syrian civil war, including whether it’s a sectarian war, what Americans need to know, and whether a post-war Syria will be an Islamic state.
Read MoreSarah Palin: Obama Wants to Make White People Slaves
The “Palin Whisperer” breaks it down.
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Cleansing Monsters: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter retells the story of America, laying the blame for many of the worst episodes on vampires. Does this history let us off the hook?
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Why 9/11 Changed Everything Nothing
The cliché that 9/11 “changed everything” is nowhere less true than in the post-9/11 impulse to declare war immediately. War was a choice as well as an echo: a choice Americans made, and an echo of how Americans have made decisions in times of previous conflict.
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Why Do Southerners Call Mormonism a Cult?
An interview with Patrick Mason, the nation’s leading scholarly expert on anti-Mormonism.
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