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Religion Dispatches
Two polls out this week show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump among likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers. A Quinnipiac University poll out yesterday has Carson leading…
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Religion Dispatches
The World Congress of Families, which brings together American Religious Right activists with their counterparts from around the world, gathers next week in Salt Lake City, Utah, the first time one of…
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Religion Dispatches
In light of this Christian Post article on the “Christian Voting Guide” put out by Rev. Steven Andrew, I was curious to see how Jesus himself would stack up against other candidates. The short answer…
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Religion Dispatches
Historian Heather White on the surprising role of Protestantism in the story of LGBT justice in the U.S.
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Religion Dispatches
As the much-ballyhooed family synod lurches into its final days, with no clear consensus on even the most mild of reforms suggested by Pope Francis and lots of backbiting and political posturing (one…
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Religion Dispatches
After Kathryn Schulz’s eviscerating portrait of Thoreau in the New Yorker, the nineteenth-century nature boy has had no shortage of apologists. Jonathan Malesic salvages Thoreau’s political vision…
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Religion Dispatches
Where, oh where, are the “budget is a moral document” types when we really need them? I don’t know about you, but I hear nary a peep about the debt ceiling standoff from DC’s Religion Industrial…
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Religion Dispatches
Presidential candidates currently fall into two camps. In the first, you have about 20 Republican and Democratic front-runners who have received political endorsements or significant national…
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We hear a lot about the ways that religious exemptions impact the divisive cultural issues of our day—like abortion, marriage equality, and increasingly basic vaccinations. But the resistance to…
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Religion Dispatches
On the 12th of October, amid growing violence in Israel/Palestine, stories and video began to circulate on social media of Israelis cursing at a critically wounded Palestinian boy. Excluded, or…
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