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Religion Dispatches

“Joseph Smith Himself Viewed Women as Priesthood Holders”

Mormon women organize for ordination.
Joanna Brooks
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Neologism of the Week: ‘Tragicglee’

We saw it after Sandy Hook and Kermit Gosnell, and it’ll probably crop up in discussions of Boston.
Kate Blanchard
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VA Supreme Court Gives Episcopal Church Victory Over Breakaways

Court says conservatives can’t take historic property with them when they leave.
Peter Montgomery
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Anti-Gay Activists’ Biggest Fear in Fight Over Boy Scouts...

Hint: it’s not the loss of merit badges.
Ross Murray
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“People of Faith” Want... Guns?

Or just endless tenure in a job that doesn’t require an IQ test.
Sarah Posner
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Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed

Blaming Islam-as-ideology for the present state of the Muslim world is intellectually dishonest.
Hamdan Azhar
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Ted Cruz, “Natural Born Citizen”

Born in Canada, but no “birth certificate problem.”
Sarah Posner
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What Does Proper Christian Womanhood Have to do with the Ray Rice Story?

In 1882, the state of Maryland adopted an “Act to inflict Corporal Punishment upon Persons found guilty of Wife-Beating,” allowing any man who “brutally assault or beat his wife” to receive up to…
Eric C. Miller
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Yes, Virginia, There Were Cannibals

Life in the Jamestown colony, pious as colonists were, was more hell than heaven.
Paul Harvey
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New Poll Finds 'Growing Appetite' for Mixing Religion and Politics

A new poll out today from the Pew Research Center finds an increasing number of Americans in favor of injecting religion into electoral politics, a growing perception that the Obama administration is…
Sarah Posner
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