RNC Takes America to Church, Mormon Style, as Rank-and-File LDS Step Up
Now that the Convention’s over, time to ask the real questions about Romney’s faith and politics.
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Akin, Spiritual Warfare, and the Radicalization of the Anti-Choice Movement
What Akin says about the state of the GOP on abortion and contraception.
Read MoreEvangelicals and Newt: Love Him or Hate Him?
Sorting it all out.
Read MoreGingrich Signs Personhood USA Pledge
Opts for most radical definition of fetal personhood.
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Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question
Exodus International appears to be re-thinking its commitment to transforming gay Christians into straight ones. So now it is the larger world’s turn to ask: is that kind of change really possible?
Read MoreIs the Internet the End of Religion?
Dawkins and Dennett hold a “conversation” on the evolution of religion.
Read MoreMormons Prepare for WA Marriage Equality Fight
A conversation with founding members of Mormons for Marriage Equality.
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I Was Wrong About Occupy
Thursday morning a dozen occupiers addressed forty or so clergy. We clergy were all somewhat skeptical of the demand for public space. You could hear the ministerial, rabbinical hrumph, hrumph in the room. (Most of us had never occupied Zucotti Park and a downward trend in temperature wasn’t going to improve on that.) But the occupiers edged toward the theological as they articulated a need for communal, inspirational, face-to-face contact in which they could “appear” to one another.
Read MoreIn Memoriam: Sarah Hammond
The loss of a brilliant religion scholar.
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Gingrich’s Anti-Secularism Greatest Hits
Some history on the historian.
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