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Religion Dispatches
As of this writing, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is 2016’s biggest movie worldwide. If pop culture is our public religion (as per scholar David Chidester, for example) this blockbuster…
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Religion Dispatches
The other day, I suggested that if we want to understand the future of the religious left, we ought to look to black and Hispanic communities. A new study from Indiana University’s School of Public…
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Religion Dispatches
Let the backlash begin. The arguments against President Obama’s historic directive that public schools allow trans students to use the bathroom of their choice has met with the expected opposition…
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Religion Dispatches
In a recent piece over at Slate, Ruth Graham argues that the current state of the Republican Party and conservative evangelicalism presents liberal Christians with an opportunity to be heard through…
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Religion Dispatches
Two Democratic congressmen this week introduced the “Do No Harm Act,” a proposed amendment to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the once bipartisan law that’s now at the center of the…
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Religion Dispatches
Last summer I shopped around a satire about where Candidate Trump was leading America. Nowhere good. Written from the perspective of a father trying to explain to his daughter why she was no longer an…
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Religion Dispatches
There is one enormous meta-issue where the religious left could play a very meaningful part in a broader coalition…
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Religion Dispatches
Is it the habits? The crosses? What is it about the Little Sisters of the Poor that seems to have the power to cloud the mind of the Supreme Court? If you substituted any other word for “contraception…
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Religion Dispatches
The recent flurry of headlines over the possibility of women deacons in the Catholic church may be good for news, but it’s also good for a question: what does women’s ordination really mean today, at…
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