Christian Right

Open DoorsUSA doesn’t want to talk about Islamophobia.

Gingrich’s Christian Right training.

Lowlights from Thanksgiving Family Forum.

Bishops’ “religious liberty” campaign a distraction from gap between US Catholics’ relatively tolerant views on LGBT issues and the hierarchy’s anti-gay positions.

From a “collision course” with LGBT activism to a full-scale “neutering.”

They want science the way they want it, not the way it is.

Besides the weighty matters of truth, justice and protection, Coach Brown prayed for something much less obviously connected to the alleged sexual abuse: a restoration of masculinity to the game of football. “There are a lot of little boys around the country, today, who are watching this game. And they’re trying to figure out what the definition of manhood is all about. Father, this is it right here. I pray that this game will be a training ground of what manhood looks like.” When I heard that prayer I couldn’t help but ask, why here and why now? What is it exactly about this scandal that relates to little boys trying to learn what manhood looks like?

An epic choke on foreign policy knowledge—and that of his own base.

In order to restore meaning to the ideas of freedom and community, Rev. Billy exposes their current bankruptcy through a “religious” performance drawn from institutional, theatrical, and cultural realms. But make no mistake, it is real.

Duggars’ big family in an information vacuum.