Christian Right

Today Americans United for the Separation of Church and State launched a new project, Protect Thy Neighbor, aimed, organizers said, at the overuse of religious exemptions in legislatures and the…

When historians recount the history of separation of church and state in our time, one of the signature events may be a federal court case that didn’t even make it to the Supreme Court. It didn’t need…

AL.com reports that Win Johnson, the director of the legal staff of the Administrative Office of Courts in Alabama, which operates the state’s judiciary headed by Chief Justice Roy Moore, has written…

In a much talked-about Op-Ed in Time last week in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling on same sex marriage, Rod Dreher wrote that Christians “really have to accept the fact that we really are…

In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor Sarah Morice-Brubaker explores how some conservative Christians channel their…

A Q&A with author Sara Moslener about “Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence”

Mike Huckabee has joined the ranks of those invoking Martin Luther King Jr. to legitimate civil disobedience in response to the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing same sex marriage. As the former…

“I held my tongue as she told me, ‘Son, fear is the heart of love.’ So I never went back.” – Death Cab for Cutie, from “I Will Follow You into the Dark” (2005) Ahead of today’s historic Supreme Court…

Reactions from conservatives (and those courting their votes) range from angry to apoplectic. With a strong dose of the ridiculous.

NAR is a network that seeks to “remake… Christianity in a theocratic mold.” Four years ago, Religious Right leaders were reluctant to openly affiliate themselves with NAR, but it seems that its dominionist agenda is no longer seen to be shameful.