Christian Right

For all his talk of protecting religious freedom, one of the First Amendment’s five sacred rights, it’s taken President Donald Trump less than one week to start kicking the legs out from under each of…

The claims of religious persecution, particularly by cisgender, straight white men who run multi-million-dollar advocacy groups, are especially heinous on a day intended to commemorate Dr. King’s life.

Human Rights Watch released its 2017 World Report, in which the group reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries, which a focus on the “dangerous rise of populism” and global attacks on…

Many are called but few are chosen during any presidential transition. That’s why it’s illuminating to consider who Donald Trump has chosen from the parade of possibilities for his transition team and senior administration appointments so far.

One hopes that we can together strike a wise balance between suspicion and deference with respect to expertise.

Conservative interpretations of Catholic theology are often more influential on the religious and political right than they’re often given credit for.

Religion and the social issues it stands in for are about the last things anybody votes on. People vote their race, then their pocketbook, then their need for national security.

To read press coverage about it, one might think that religious freedom is a concern only for religious and political conservatives, and not one of the most liberatory ideas in history.

As Inauguration Day nears, and as our new, orange-tinted reality sets in, it behooves all Americans who believe in fairness and equality to take stock of what we’re up against — because that’s how we…

Even the protests of progressive evangelicals themselves offer proof that progressive initiatives have never be more than an aberration to the overwhelming prevalence of evangelical conservatism.