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19th century women’s rights activist Matilda Joslyn Gage sought equal rights for all, but only by rethinking religion.

You know the moral panic over unemployed men has reached epic proportions when it’s enough to turn Ross Douthat into FDR. According to Douthat, the “slow burning social crisis” in America of low…

It’s understandable that with people grasping for a light in the darkness in the wake of Trump’s Muslim travel ban, they would look to the leadership of the Catholic Church. After all, the…

The irony of his actions lies in the fact that they are exactly what groups like ISIS want: to erase the history of Islam and coexistence in this country.

For the Shakers, God’s gender was always understood as dualistic, as containing both the masculine and the feminine, and leadership was often matriarchal.

To the Afro-Creole Spiritualists of New Orleans, spirits were important, raced bodies were not.

Early black newspapers helped to solidify black identity at a time when that identity was being attacked in the cruelest, most violent ways.

Evangelicals have enjoyed a longstanding right to define the terms of “religious freedom” as it benefits their own cultural position

In preparation for the coming July 4th festivities, Rep. Doug Lamborn, who represents Colorado Springs and El Paso County in Colorado (full disclosure—my home) introduced a resolution to declare July…

Roger Cohen isn’t the first person to believe Islam is suffering a civil war. What’s actually happening is a lot worse. We’re in the middle of a Third World War. In last week’s column, “ Orlando and…