RD Senior Correspondent Haroon Moghul on CNN yesterday discussing GOP candidate Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about the parents of slain U.S. Army captain Humayun S. M. Khan, who accused Trump…
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, would like you to know that she believes vaccines are beneficial, unless they’re not. In addition, she believes that she has not seen…
In recent weeks, as the reality of Donald Trump’s nomination has continued to settle, op-eds have begun to circulate on social media claiming to make a “moral” case for his candidacy. These are…
The 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia came to an end last night with Hillary Clinton’s speech, in which she accepted the presidential nomination. Clinton, of course, was the star of…
In another post, I looked at some of the religious narratives surfacing around the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Let’s turn now to a view from within the convention—specifically, at…
You know your summer is not going well when Donald Trump chooses your birthday to come to your place of work and deliver a public address. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? The Trump…
You’ve heard me talk before about the perennial (quadrennial, I guess) stories about religion and politics that always pop up in presidential campaign years: things like “Democrats must reach out to…
Welcome to the first in a sporadic series of posts on popularly misunderstood, misused, or misleading terms, stories, and ideas from the world of religion. In this first installment, “Miss Conception…