Pope, Christian Conservatives Team Up to Promote Patriarchy
The Vatican held an interfaith conference this week on the promotion of the “traditional”—that is,…
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An Abbreviated Guide to 5 Arguments Against Contraceptive Coverage in Obamacare
What the Hobby Lobby amicus briefs say about the religious conservative worldview on religion in public life.
Read MoreHow Will Religious Conservatives Follow Through on Marriage Bluster?
Catholic and evangelical leaders have pledged massive resistance to marriage equality. Now what?
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Progressive Evangelical Attacks AARP, Social Security
When DC’s Religion Industrial Complex sings its hosannas about evangelicals moving toward progressive social positions I always try to be hopeful, even as I turn a gimlet eye to what’s really happening beneath the headlines.
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God is My Co-Belligerent: Avatar Priests, Hijacked Theologians, and Other Figures of Right-Wing Revolt
Probably few who gathered to hear Bonhoeffer’s latest biographer expected to be asked to imagine themselves called by God to rise up against a regime that might be as heinous as the Third Reich—but as it turns out Metaxas is not unique among religious-right intellectuals in his use of the language of armed revolt.
Read MoreYerushalmi, National Review, and a Conservative Fight Over Shari’ah
Which conservatives will prevail?
Read MoreChuck Colson, Watergate Felon and Evangelical Leader, Dies at 80
As an Evangelical ideas man, Colson was just as dangerous as his time with Nixon—only this time his boss was Jesus.
Read MoreSantorum and the New Catholic-Evangelical Alliance
A political, not theological, co-belligerence.
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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.
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Santorum not alone among Catholics in antipathy to JFK’s speech.
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