The Three Qualities Marking the Capitol Assault as Terrorism
While the horrific scenes of the invasion and occupation of the US Capitol building were…
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Updated: My Work on Confederate Monuments Leaves This Christian Ethicist Distrustful of Calls for Reconciliation and Healing
UPDATE 10:05 p.m. ET January 6: Hours after this essay was published, Trump supporters breached…
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Texas Faith Leaders Say Governor’s Use of Pandemic to Ban Abortion is an Attack on Religious Freedom (Updated)
UPDATE April 21: On April 20, after this article appeared, the 5th Circuit Court of…
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The Battle for the Meaning of Religious Freedom Day
A proposed resolution intended to commemorate perhaps one of the most radical, liberatory, and revolutionary pieces of legislation in the history of the world misses the point. And it’s not a mistake.
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Moral Mondays: The Battle For Justice Cannot Be Waged Only in the Courts
On a warm day in July 2013, I found myself on the wrong end of…
Read MoreGod, Guns, and the Confederate Flag
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley ordered the removal of four Confederate flags from the state capital grounds…
Read MoreGuns and Babies: What Newtown Does NOT Teach Us
Listen up, conservative pundits. You can’t say that because God isn’t in a classroom, that we have reaped what we’ve sown—and then ask for guns in schools at the same time.
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In 2012 Bishops Join Fight to Repackage Discrimination as ‘Religious Freedom’
At the end of 2011, in a sign of what’s to come, the U.S. Bishops warned the Obama administration to amend a regulation on contraception in its health care legislation or stand accused of religious discrimination.
Read MoreHow the Logic of Law Enforcement Leads to Spying on Muslims
The inverse of the argument that Islam ‘causes’ terrorism is the idea that Islam could solve the problem. Either way, it’s undue focus on the religion.
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Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry
The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.
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