Christian Right

Capital in the Twenty-First Century made Thomas Piketty that rarest kind of celebrity: the academic kind. The French economist’s hefty tome helped propel the issue of income inequality to the…

It is by now widely accepted that the second half of the 20 th century witnessed a realignment of religious politics in the United States. In particular, many scholars have written about an interfaith…

A thought experiment: What would religious gun control activism look like if it mimicked the most successful features of the anti-choice movement? It would begin, for one thing, with a better name…

As 2015 winds to a close, Michiganders–especially working people and LGBTQ folks–are reeling from right-wing assaults on both their pocketbooks and their civil rights.

Today, Pope Francis arrives in Nairobi, Kenya. After two days in Kenya, he will travel to Uganda, and then to the Central African Republic. The Pope’s message of care for those on the margins and his…

Religious Freedom Day provides an opportunity for us to think dynamically about the meaning of religious freedom in our time – even as the Christian Right seeks to redefine it beyond recognition.

The U.S. Catholic bishops have now gathered four times for their semi-annual meeting since Pope Francis was elected in March of 2014: twice for the fall plenary and twice for their spring meeting. It…

One of the big questions at last week’s Republican debate was whether Jeb Bush would follow the lead of his super PAC and attack Marco Rubio as being unelectable in the general election because of his…

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…

Koch-funded theologians have developed a scripture-based argument to address populist anger over economic inequality.