Christian Right

Responding to Pope Francis’ announcement that during the upcoming “Year of Mercy” all priests would be empowered to forgive women who have had abortions and return them to full communion with the…

UPDATE: Following this morning’s hearing, Kim Davis has been taken into custody by U.S. Marshals for contempt of court. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, not known for shying away from…

Is there a prize for most offensive conversion narrative?

In the 1970s, conservative evangelicals declared themselves defenders of the American way and protectors of the moral majority. Thus began a long and bitter culture war for the soul of America. Among…

Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who continues to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples despite the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear her case, says she is obeying “God’s…

Islamic State: Nine men reportedly executed for sodomy; UN Security Council hears testimony Islamic State militants reportedly executed nine men on Sunday “on charges of sexual perversion.” The…

Donald Trump is rejiggering the way the Republican Party does religion. Give Trump credit for one thing: exposing, in plain view, that much of the religious right is driven more by politics than by…

Over on his popular blog, Chris Boeskool, a progressive Christian, has suggested that there’s something rather un-Christian about the mocking posts in response to the news of Josh Duggar’s Ashley…

Richard Blanco, the openly gay Cuban-American poet who read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, composed and read a poem for the ceremony reopening the U.S. embassy in Havana. Guatemalan…

I went on vacation for two weeks, during which Donald Trump continued to be Donald Trump, and continued to lead the Republican primary field in the polls. Some religious conservatives say he can’t win…