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Religion Dispatches
The Mississippi “religious liberty” law that will soon allow public officials to refuse service to same-sex couples and transgender individuals was hit with two legal challenges last week, one by the…
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Religion Dispatches
In a short piece last week, I briefly discussed Trump’s social media war with Southern Baptist Russell Moore, who tweeted Old Testament prophecies at the presumptive Republican nominee while the…
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Religion Dispatches
The Human Dignity Trust has released a report, Breaking the Silence: Criminalisation of Lesbians and Bisexual Women and its Impacts, which it says is “the first ever global in-depth analysis of how…
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Religion Dispatches
Whenever you think about the principled Southern Baptist leaders opposing the ascension of America’s Problem Child to the GOP presidential nomination, think of this paragraph from an NPR report on…
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Religion Dispatches
Three years, two synods, dozens of bishop attendees, hundreds of pages of documents, innumerous small committee meetings, and endless amounts of angst went into Pope Francis’ decision to more or less…
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Religion Dispatches
If Whole Foods and Joel Osteen got together and had a child, it would probably look something like Herbalife. The nutrition company takes the transformative promise of natural products, mixes it with…
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Religion Dispatches
North Carolina’s HB2 (also known as the “bathroom bill”) may not explicitly be about religious freedom , but nearly all of its vocal supporters are conservative Christians who seem to have a hard time…
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Religion Dispatches
Islam, weddings, B’nai B’rith, and more. Oh my.
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Religion Dispatches
If you scroll to the bottom of the New York Times’ ‘World’ page, beneath articles about British political parties, economic news stories, and other matters of international newsworthiness, you’ll find…
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I’m a prude. Let’s just get that out there right now. I blame my Southern Baptist upbringing for my prudishness. I was taught that the body was inherently shameful, the earthen vessel we had been…
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