Christian Right

Following last week’s botched execution in Oklahoma, religious leaders began to weigh in on the moral quality of capital punishment. One of these, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president…

Last week a curious headline began to make the rounds online: “Jesus had an ugly sister-in-law.” It was the title of a blog post about the “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” a papyrus fragment that caused a…

While conservatives are celebrating today’s Supreme Court decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway as a crucial victory for religious freedom, advocates of church-state separation are warning that the…

The ultimate irony of this sad tale is that it is not LGBTQ people who are foreign to Africa, but rather the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that is being used against them.

Sarah Palin’s baptism-by-waterboarding comment at the National Rifle Association this weekend has disgusted Christians across the spectrum, both for her blaspheming of a religious sacrament, and her…

Russell Moore’s arguments in favor of discrimination quickly drift into outright absurdity.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan again argues that women should just run over to 7-11 if they want birth control.

How a culture enabled the abuse.

As more African nations move to pass anti-gay laws, there is a need to reflect on the role U.S. conservative legal groups have played on the continent.

The theocrats in both counties and their mentor, Judge Roy Moore, help illuminate a certain approach to contemporary debates about religious freedom.