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Religion Dispatches
Listen up, conservative pundits. You can’t say that because God isn’t in a classroom, that we have reaped what we’ve sown—and then ask for guns in schools at the same time.
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Religion Dispatches
Is a black person’s life worth anything in America? Not as long as America remains “Exceptional.”
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Gerald Gay’s Second Amendment extremism and Islam.
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Religion Dispatches
Years ago a mother told me a story about her young son who liked to play cowboys and church, his very own role-playing game. One day she overheard him reenacting Jesus summoning Lazarus from the tomb; the little boy, toy gun in each hand, shouted, “Lazarus, come out with your hands…
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Religion Dispatches
Herb Titus, a lawyer for the far-right Gun Owners of America, is jubilant over last week’s Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which the Court held that state and…
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Religion Dispatches
New Louisiana law allows armed “security forces” to carry concealed weapons in houses of worship.
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Religion Dispatches
A look beneath the surface of hard-right theology on guns and domestic violence.
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Religion Dispatches
A Wisconsin woman is arrested for bringing a piece for her Sunday morning peace?
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Religion Dispatches
In the wake of the June 28th Supreme Court ruling, thoughts on the gun’s sacred role in US culture and our God-given right to be violent…
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