Christian Right

One hears a great deal about conservative Christians — especially the ones running for the highest office in the land — respecting moral, spiritual, and legal authority. The Bible is inerrant, the…

This week the Human Rights Campaign released its list of countries to watch in 2015, both countries “where the fight for equality is making progress” and “those where the fundamental rights of LGBT…

Andraé Crouch, the incomparable songwriter, gospel singer and preacher, died in Los Angeles on January 9, 2015 of a heart attack. Billy Graham once said of Crouch that he was “The greatest hymn writer…

The Christian Right is often long on style and short on substance. Depending on the day many of its leaders may cast themselves as the second coming of the Founding Fathers, the living legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or even as facing penalties for their beliefs as grim and spectacular as Christian martyrs in history.

From the passing of Iyengar to homophobic yoga to the Super Bowl, yoga made headlines and continued to evolve in 2014.

There’s no reason to think the increasingly global culture war between advocates and opponents of LGBT equality will let up this year. In fact, the opposite is true: opponents of LGBT equality are…

We already know that 2014 was a big year for religious exemption cases, from the gravely serious to the immensely trivial. But what will 2015 have in store? If I were a prophet I could, of course…

2014 was the year that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) made a comeback, and now religious exemptions are the talk of the (policy wonk) town. As Hobby Lobby emboldened those seeking…

Religious Freedom Day may be the most significant national day that most of us have never heard of.

From religious violence to fear of contagion to economic and racial injustice: taking full measure of what we are up against.