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Christian Right

Religion Dispatches
Why are religion scholars relying on corporate-speak to talk about Mormonism?
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Religion Dispatches
Jim Daly wants to talk about reducing abortions, but also wants to take away Planned Parenthood’s family planning funding.
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Religion Dispatches
How well do evangelical advocates for adoption and foster care prepare families for what lies ahead?
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Religion Dispatches
With the swing to the Right of the 1950s, conservatives began to deploy “Judeo-Christian” in the fight against “Godless Communism,” contrasting it with “the communist projection of man as a producing, consuming animal to be used and discarded.”
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Religion Dispatches
On a panel called “The Shari’ah Challenge to the West,” shari’ah myths prevail.
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Religion Dispatches
But new American Conservative Union chair has other ideas.
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Religion Dispatches
Ugandan gay rights activists believe the police and government officials are using the brutal murder of gay rights activist David Kato as an excuse to again whip up support for an anti-homosexuality bill (so severe that it dictates imprisonment, and even execution for the ‘crime’ of homosexuality) still pending in Parliament. “Shortly after we buried David, Bahati (the sponsor of the anti-homosexuality bill) issued a statement saying, ‘This is the gay violence we have been talking about,’” Kaggwa said in an interview with Religion Dispatches. “There is a correlation there between this very convenient confession by this guy and this statement.”
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