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Christian Right

Religion Dispatches
The conservative media world is today aflame over subpoenas served on pastors, by the City of Houston, in litigation brought by activists who claim the City wrongfully rejected their effort to put a…
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Political Research Associates
It’s true. Religious liberty is under sustained attack in America—but not in the way the Christian Right would have us believe.
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Religion Dispatches
On my bloggingheads show last week, I spoke with Lydia Bean, author of The Politics of Evangelical Identity, an ethnographic study of four congregations, two (one evangelical and one Pentecostal) in…
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Public Eye
The Faith-Based Takeover of Federal Programs
Two presidents in a row have increasingly steered federal grants and contracts to conservative Christian groups—including houses of worship.
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Political Research Associates
Lalonde’s maxim to not be “too preachy” in the pursuit of mainstream appeal sums up the strategy of not only the new Hollywood movie but the entire franchise of Christian Right adult and children’s books, films, graphic novels, and video games.
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Religion Dispatches
Just a day before gay marriage in the U.S. received a significant boost from the Supreme Court, the much-anticipated Extraordinary Synod on the Family opened in Rome yesterday with Pope Francis…
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Religion Dispatches
On Capitol Hill yesterday, a glorious fall afternoon, John Cougar Mellencamp’s ” R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.” and the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ U.S.A.” blared from a stage designed for a photo opportunity for a…
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Political Research Associates
Conversion therapy, also known as ex-gay or reparative therapy, is the biggest obstacle to LGBTQ liberation in Africa.
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Religion Dispatches
Catholic Church: LGBT Catholics, Conservative Christians Jockey as Family Synod Approaches The Ways of Love: International Conference for a Pastoral Care with Homosexual and Transsexual People, took…
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Political Research Associates
Lou Engle will not be there to commemorate the events of fifty years ago, but, in his words, to “break the curse” of that rebellion.
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