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Religious Freedom Day provides an opportunity for us to think dynamically about the meaning of religious freedom in our time – even as the Christian Right seeks to redefine it beyond recognition.

The gay liberation movement has succeeded in bringing homosexuality out of the closet and into the political, economic, and cultural mainstream.

U.S. law enforcement and media to frame Far Right terrorists as Lone Wolves, while Muslim militants who act similarly are usually described as part of international jihadist terror networks.

James G. Blaine is largely unknown today. For two decades of the late nineteenth century, however, Blaine was possibly the most recognized and powerful political figure in the United States, serving…

Koch-funded theologians have developed a scripture-based argument to address populist anger over economic inequality.

Rep. Richard H. Baker, a Republican congressman from Baton Rouge, was quoted as telling lobbyists in September 2005, “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”

The demonization and scapegoating that accompanies right-wing populism in the United States is breeding a backlash movement that will take creative and bold approaches as we organize to defend democracy and diversity in the public square.

In her now classic paper titled White Fragility , Robin DiAngelo writes about the many ways that white people create a world in their own image. She argues that this world emerges from and reflects a…

“Regulatory takings” has become the cornerstone of the “Wise Use” movement’s legislative agenda as well as the ideology underlying the movement’s “property rights” wing.

As a child growing up in Louisville, Kentucky in the late 1970s a curious painting hung in my family’s den depicting thirteen men of varying shades of brown sitting around a long table partaking in a…