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Religion Dispatches
After Friday’s horrific attacks on Paris, France, leaving 129 dead, hundreds wounded, a nation traumatized, and a world shocked, we are of course asking: What do we do now? But, of course, we’ve been…
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Public Eye
How the Right is Marketing Medicare's Demise
Koch-funded theologians have developed a scripture-based argument to address populist anger over economic inequality.
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Religion Dispatches
When we were kids growing up in the Mormon Church, my brother’s best friend Tony, who wasn’t Mormon, used to like to come along with us. When my brother turned eight, he and the others prepared for…
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Religion Dispatches
Now that the Supreme Court has announced that it will hear a consolidated set of cases regarding objections to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act, including the suit brought by the…
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Religion Dispatches
Transgender Europe celebrated its 10 th anniversary. In the U.S., the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest Jewish denomination in the country, affirmed its commitment “to the full equality, inclusion…
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Religion Dispatches
This weekend a small cadre of far right Christian leaders are hosting a conference on religious freedom in Iowa. The freedom they are fighting for is the right to organize all of culture according to…
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Religion Dispatches
In a blog post that made waves in the Christian press last week, Billy Graham warns churches to “prepare for persecution.” Message aside, determining whether or not the nearly 97-year-old evangelist…
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Religion Dispatches
Intersex Awareness Day was observed around the world on October 26. In what one advocate has called a “life-saving” move, the U.S. State Department has indicated that it will include same-sex partners…
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Religion Dispatches
The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “ The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” a timely one given the recent public tussles over the Synod of the Family…
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Religion Dispatches
Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about…
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