Complicating the Prosperity Gospel Story: A Microeconomics of Pentecostalism, International Edition
Pentecostalism, prosperity gospel, and a mining economy? Sounds like West Virginia, but here we’re talking about Zambia….
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From “Jane Roe” to “Roe No More”: Norma McCorvey’s Long Strange Trip Through the Politics of Abortion
Roe v. Wade plaintiff Norma McCorvey’s death this past Saturday, February 18, closed a life that not…
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David Bowie’s “Heroes,” the Soundtrack of a Spiritual Libertine
“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist.”
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Oprah, Terrorist Cells, and the Meaning of Life: An Interview with Paul Froese
I have a theory: New Year’s resolutions have nothing to do with the turn of…
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Marriage Equality Is the Next Roe v. Wade… And That’s Okay
The Washington Post reports on the growing realization among gay rights groups that a Supreme…
Read MoreCatholic Bishops Vote to Double Down on Culture War
The U.S. Catholic Bishops’ vote to maintain their politically aggressive Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty…
Read MoreReligious Leaders: Time to End Silence on Reproductive Justice
A reverend calls for other religious leaders to speak up and urge President Obama to stand for the reproductive rights of women.
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Wichita, the Sequel: A Clinic Reopens at Ground Zero in America’s Fight over Abortion
Four years later, the church doesn’t speak to the media about the murder. “They put that in the past,” an administrator told me, handing back my card. But they may be the only ones who can say that in Wichita, which for 20 years has been the epicenter of America’s fight over abortion.
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The Not-So-Lofty Origins of the Evangelical Pro-Life Movement
As the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade passed, evangelical leaders marked the occasion with histories of how their community took up the anti-abortion cause.
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Is “Pro-Choice” Passé?
Roe v. Wade anniversary edition of Bloggingheads.
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