Setting a Low Bar: Religious Entities Praised for Treating Covid Religious Exemptions Responsibly
Last week, AP published a small, albeit important article, “Many faith leaders say no to…
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A Love Letter to #Exvangelicals and Those Deconstructing Their Toxic Faith
I’m astounded by people who have the intellectual honesty, courage, and fortitude to examine their…
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Anti-Vaxx Cardinal Burke, Just Off the Ventilator, is Becoming a Living Anti-Abortion Martyr
Earlier this month Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke announced to the world that he had contracted…
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Douthat’s Criticism of Pope’s Restriction of Latin Mass Is Fascinating; It’s Also Ahistorical and Has Been Used Before
In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, fellow Catholic Ross Douthat criticized…
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Trump Admin Grant to ‘Hookers for Jesus’ Ignites Twitter Firestorm Over Taxpayer Funded Religious Coercion
Reuters’ Sarah N. Lynch broke a big story on Monday morning highlighting one of the more…
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Amid Reality-TV Gimmicks and Xenophobic Rhetoric, Trump’s SOTU Appeals to Evangelicals
Since late December, 2019, when retiring editor-in-chief of Christianity Today Mark Galli published his infamous…
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‘Empty the Pews’ Gives Voice to Those Who’ve Escaped Toxic Christianity
We want people who grew up or are growing up in right-wing Christian environments to understand that it’s okay to trust their doubts; and [because] there’s still a pretty strong taboo in the American public sphere against criticizing any large Christian group we hope this book will help [change that].
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Beyond ‘Thoughts and Prayers’: How the Christian Right’s Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence
In order for the GOP leadership to continue to do nothing on guns they need loyal foot soldiers to deliver messaging that appeals to their base. What this messaging, familiar to those of us who grew up in the Christian Right, tells us about the “soul” of the Republican Party is not pretty.
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Conservative Catholics Unhappy About New Book on LGBTs and The Church; and More in the Global LGBT Recap
The Global Alliance for LGBT Education has protested the selection of Saudi Arabia as the…
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Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap
Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN independent expert charged with investigating discrimination and violence on the basis…
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