Christian Right

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.

If I didn’t know better I would think that an establishment called The Hitching Post was more likely to be an old-time saloon than the newest front in the religious exemption wars. But that just goes…

In a twist that shows just how absurd the entire debate over “religious freedom” and the Affordable Care Act has become — and the futility of trying to find any compromise to satisfy religious…