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The hard truth: homophobia remains one of the right-wing’s most successful tools for mobilizing political support. Even as LGBT advocates celebrate recent victories—four ballot measure victories in…

A recent opinion piece scolds fellow progressive Christians who suffer from an inability to invite a “healthy dialogue” on controversial issues. There’s certainly some truth to that, but there’s a far more consequential problem in progressive Christian circles.

Barr’s war on secularism and Pompeo’s end-times infused diplomacy are windows into why Trump’s evangelical supporters will not turn on him because of his foreign policy in Turkey, much less his phone call with Ukraine.

If the lives of Middle East Christians mattered so much to white evangelical leaders, they’d do everything in their power, which is a lot, to pressure Trump to reverse his terrible choice. They will not, however, for three reasons.

Religious conservatives have begun to employ heartbreaking stories of people who have detransitioned to bolster the same old misinterpreted statistics and discredited studies that have propped up the infrastructure of anti-trans advocacy for years.

For all that Bloom got wrong about theory and the state of the discipline, he was correct in his contention that the sometimes godlessness of the field was a critical detriment, and that ‘A nation obsessed with religion rather desperately needs a religious criticism.’

Far from being a refuge from religious tyranny, mainstream atheism is just another microcosm of American gender and racial hierarchies.

There’s much to say about this week’s arguments, including the question of whether the employers were arguing, in effect, that it is acceptable to discriminate against LGBTQ people so long as they discriminate against all LGBTQ people.