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Facebook’s ban of LifeSiteNews a notoriously ultraconservative website that regularly spreads disinformation about abortion — for its COVID violations — puts into sharp relief the tolerance of…
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Sister Cindy, 40-year campus ministry veteran and now darling of ironic Gen Z TikTok , visited Butler University recently. Earlier in the day, she’d projected a 3:30 pm arrival, and within minutes of…
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A new report from PRRI on religious attitudes toward Covid vaccination contains much that makes intuitive sense, along with a few surprises. There’s some actual good news in the poll, along with some…
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Dear Beth: Confession: I am a clergywoman ordained in the Southern Baptist tradition who has completely denounced complementarianism as an institutional, theological, and scriptural concept. I am also…
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As the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine approached achievement of Emergency Use Authorization in the United States, some raised objections because it was developed using abortion-derived stem cell…
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A dream shared by many will finally come to fruition Sunday night when the April 4 anniversary of Dr. King’s murder serves as a springboard for reflection on King’s radical vision for a transformed…
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Christian Nationalism is like a skeleton key that can help us understand the motivations for some of the worst public policy proposals over the last few years. From anti-masking and challenging public…
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The three and a half minute clip below, exclusive to RD, is from Bradley Onishi’s opening monologue of the March 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Onishi and Daniel…
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The departure of evangelical superstar Beth Moore from the Southern Baptist Convention and its publishing arm Lifeway is seismic news for a particular brand of American Christianity. But it’s too…
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Last week, researchers at Wellesley College and the University of Maryland described how —in contrast to the “Covid baby boom” that many joked would result from lockdown—the opposite is happening…
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