Christian Right

“From merely glancing through this booklet,” she explained to him, “I learned a simple yet important lesson: that bigotry is very much alive and it was naïve of me to think I could be safe from it even in school.”

Eerie coincidence or scholar-geist?

Adding a bit more context to my post from this morning: Pew has analyzed the exit polling data and found that the religious composition of the electorate has remained pretty much the same over the…

Last night’s results show that pollster Robert Jones was far, far too optimistic about the impact of declining numbers of white evangelicals on Senate races in the South. In an October 17 Atlantic…

Following Mark Driscoll’s leave of absence and subsequent resignation from the Mars Hill Church network he co-founded in 1996, on October 31, 2014 a notice appeared on the church’s website announcing…

Midterm elections present a particularly fruitful opportunity for the school privatization movement to maximize their investment.

Last week’s Southern Baptist Convention conference on “ The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage” presented a somewhat untidy hodgepodge of mixed messages as it vacillated between its…

I recorded this latest bloggingheads episode with Jerusalem lawyer Daniel Seidemann before Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick was shot this week by a Palestinian gunman, so it turns out it’s extremely…

David Gushee is thinking a lot about history. About social change, about civil rights movements, about religion, about power, about the Bible, about oppression, and about love. He has been thinking a…

The Christian Right has been operating on multiple fronts to limit the scope of the advance of marriage equality, including seeking to enable business owners, civil workers, and elected officials to openly discriminate against LGBTQ couples.