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Religion Dispatches
Readers who follow my work will be aware of my conviction that neither the press , nor the American public generally, is taking the serious threat to democracy and human rights posed by the Christian…
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Religion Dispatches
“I’m done waiting for mainstream media to cover nonreligious people and secular issues fairly and accurately,” says Sarah Levin , a woman who wears a number of hats in the institutional secular world…
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Religion Dispatches
Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who rose to prominence as a result of her former relationship with Donald Trump, is testifying against her former lawyer, Michael Avenatti, who’s on trial for…
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Religion Dispatches
Saturday 22 January marks 49 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Roe v. Wade established a right to abortion across the US. While reproductive rights organizations such as Planned…
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Religion Dispatches
One of those unspoken social rules I’ve never been very good at observing is that new years are supposed to be greeted with optimism, and this year is no different. Here we are at the beginning of…
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Religion Dispatches
On Jan. 20, 2021, President Joe Biden became the first commander in chief to use the words “white supremacy” in an inaugural address. Naming “the cry of racial justice four hundred years in the making…
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Almost as soon as the tear gas cleared from the Capitol grounds on Jan 6, multiple stories emerged. About what happened, and when, and who was responsible. A year later, we can look back and see that…
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In light of the likelihood that the GOP-stacked Supreme Court will rule in favor of Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health —and the immense harm that such a ruling will…
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Religion Dispatches
On Halloween, Rhode Island police announced that they had arrested Father James Jackson , the pastor of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP)’s church of St Mary in Providence, Rhode Island, for…
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QAnon won’t last forever. Sooner or later, even if the failure of their prophecies doesn’t necessarily do them in , conspiracy theories unravel and violent movements associated with them eventually…
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