A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America
My prayer for 2017, then, is simple: I pray that we, the people, live up to the brave and beautiful example the rebels, the resisters, and the agitators have set for us.
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Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally
A Trump administration could hold serious consequences for the entire global human rights framework.
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It Is Time For American Orthodox Christians to Protest Russia’s Persecution of LGBT
Silence is no longer an option.
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The Contested Religious Powers of Baseball on Display in Cuba
On a historic trip to Cuba this week, and in the wake of a terrorist…
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Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?
After Ireland made history in May 2015 by becoming the first country to legalize same-sex…
Read MoreHow Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?
No, we can’t simply thank anti-communist, anti-Enlightenment Catholics for the elevation of human rights language.
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Would We Have No Commitment to Equality Without Christianity?
Readers of my last post, and readers of English more generally, could be forgiven for…
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Do We Owe Human Rights to the Christian Right?
Historian Samuel Moyn argues that the history of “human rights” begins only in the twentieth century—and it may owe more to Christianity than to secular ideals.
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At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language
U.S. conservatives join forces with authoritarian regimes at the UN to resist LGBTQ rights
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The Racial Politics of Atheism
The absence of historical and sociological context for atheist politics, and its disconnection from social justice activism, will keep it in the lily-white one-percent column.
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