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Theologian Susan Thistlethwaite suggested in Newsweek that liberals should respect progressive efforts to connect with evangelicals. Frances Kissling responds that the respect should begin with a sitdown between liberals and progressives.

Oprah’s skepticism toward FLDS girls about their devotion to unusual beliefs reminds one writer of the questions asked of Muslim women.

Is a faux ‘religious left’ being manufactured as an official counterweight to the religious right in the media? Religion Dispatches talks with veteran religious right-watcher Frederick Clarkson about a new book of essays on revivifying a religious left.

Not only is the balance on Obama’s Faith-Based Council tipped toward conservatives, it seems that for every gay rights advocate there must be a homophobe.

Unless the religion of Greed can be displaced, a future of hope and social justice will be stillborn.

Islamic investing and worker justice in Indianapolis…

Some progressive feminists oppose the hijacking of women’s rights to justify U.S. invasions while avoiding any mention about the plight of women in Palestine, Iraq, or Afghanistan.

The enduring popularity of the Confederate flag has to do with faith and honor, not facts and history.

A new Barna poll plays off of the tarnished “liberal” label and seems to push the idea that conservative religion is the real religion.

Conservatives and Christians remember a different message than Solzhenitsyn’s celebrated exposé of the Russian gulags…