Religion Dispatches
The Enlightenment was not, as is often assumed, exclusively secular. In fact, religious Protestants, Jews and Catholics played a key role in imagining a tolerant, but believing, society.
Read MoreWould Christian employees be comfortable being forced by their employers to say Happy Hanukah or Happy Kwanzaa or Happy Ramadan to their customers?
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Rachel Ray is wearing a black and white scarf in a recent ad campaign for Dunkin Donuts and Michelle Malkin screams “kufiyah!” Apparently, black and white scarves mean that you support violent jihad.
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With the success of We Believe Ohio et al., progressive religious voices are breaking through…
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A new book on the Scopes “Monkey Trial” reveals history through people, images, and good old soap opera.
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By “celebrating” liberal victories years after they’re even remotely controversial, the religious right rewrites itself into history’s good book while continuing to play to the worst elements in our contemporary culture.
Read MoreOutrage is often the first step to enlightenment, compassion, and justice, but apparently not in New Haven; a tour through recent stories on gay marriage, offensive art, and religious kitsch.
Read MoreMegachurch Pastor Rod Parsley calls for America to “fulfill its divine purpose” by destroying “this false religion.”
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Less strident, less partisan, less defensive—the emerging evangelical center defies the stereotype…
Read MoreA crop of new books on the waning influence of conservative Christianity in American politics.
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