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Robert P. Jones is CEO and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of two books, including last year’s much-discussed White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in…

James Ault is a writer and documentary filmmaker based in Northampton, MA. His first film, Born Again (1987), focused on the life of a fundamentalist Baptist church in Worcester, MA. He later wrote a book about the same church, Spirit and Flesh (2004), which The Washington Post called “the best single-volume explanation of why American fundamentalist Christianity thrives among certain people.”

Last week, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona) introduced a bill that would prohibit abortion access nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy – with no exceptions for rape, incest, or health of the mother — based on the scientifically unsound claim that fetuses have developed the ability to feel pain by then.

In the twentieth century the word “ cult ” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that people apply to a group or movement that they do not like and perhaps fear. The word “cult”…

Mark Regnerus’ report claimed that children of same-sex parents faced substantial disadvantages compared to those of different-sex parents. Unfortunately for Regnerus, though, the “science” of his study has proven to be bogus.

In November 2018, Loretta Ross and PRA convened a diverse group of activists, researchers, and scholars at the Blue Mountain Center, in upstate New York, for a wide-ranging conversation about gender and White supremacy.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a new effort in May 2019 to expand the reach of its deportation machine.

The documentary God Loves Uganda, which depicts the role of American conservative evangelicals in generating vicious antigay campaigns in Uganda, has received acclaim at film festivals across the continent.

The CBMW is an evangelical organization established in 1987 to “defend against the accommodation of secular feminism” in the church and promote gender “complementarianism,” which teaches that “masculine and feminine roles are ordained by God.”

In January, the local Kansas paper Wichita Eagle anticipated that “at least four bills to crack down on illegal immigrants are expected in Kansas this year.” Given the overwhelming majority of Republican politicians in the Kansas legislature, the Tea Party-leanings of about one-fourth of the House, and the state’s rapidly growing Latino population, predictions of new anti-immigration bill proposals would seem secure.