After Orthodox Priest Suspended for ‘Stop the Steal’ Activity, a Renewed Spotlight on the Orthodox Far-Right
When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, most news reports focused on…
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COVID-Denying Father Sergei is Just the Latest Example of the Russian Orthodox Church’s ‘Holy Man’ Problem
It’s a weird story, even in 2020—and that’s saying something. Father Sergey, a COVID-denying conspiracy-spewing…
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New Study of Christian Nationalism in Texas Should be a Warning for the Whole Country
“Our [Founding] Fathers intended that this nation should be a Christian nation, not because all…
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Trump’s Potentially Deadly Easter Celebration Has His Daddy’s Pastor’s Magical Thinking Written All Over It
While most pandemic-aware Christian leaders have already canceled any public gathering for the Feast of…
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Christian Responses to COVID-19 Raise Old Religion v. Science Questions
If there’s one thing that irks me to no end about the atheist community, it’s…
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A Short Primer on Married Priests in the Wake of Francis’ Denial of the Amazon Synod
The recent announcement by Pope Francis that he will not allow married men to be…
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Bulgaria and Orthodox Church Cancellation of Louvre Exhibit is Classic Authoritarian Move
This week has not been a very good one for the arts. Or history. The…
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Taking Evangelical Support of Israel at Face Value Is a Terrible Idea: A Response
Writing under a pseudonym in the Forward, a Christian lawyer dismissed the apocalyptic component of Christian Zionism urging readers to take evangelicals’ love for Jews at face value. But Chrissy Stroop, who was raised in fundamentalism, calls this gaslighting.
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When Fundamentalism Follows You Out the Door: Transphobic Statement Exposes Exvangelical Trauma
While the “exvangelical” community was designed to help former evangelicals heal from a toxic environment, a subgroup of exvangelicals calling itself the “Magdalene Collective” released a statement that’s been called transphobic and that many see as a replication of the very abusive patterns from which they’d been trying to escape.
Read MoreLGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem
Though an estimated 70% of the overall population supports nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, and a new survey shows that a majority of every religious group agrees, there remains at least one significant hurdle.
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