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Madrid hosted the massive WorldPride and an affiliated human rights conference this week. Among those who attended were Iceland’s former Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first openly LGBT…

Years ago when I was co-directing the Berkeley-Harvard program in comparative religion our conference in Cambridge had divided into two camps, the ethical relativists and the ethical absolutists…

Dan Schultz gets it exactly right: Democrats don’t need to learn to speak the language of faith in order to win. Predictably, Dan’s analysis—in two recent pieces here in RD—provoked consternation…

The NRA released a terrifying recruitment video the other day, unsettling even by their standards, issuing all but a call to arms to battle protestors, liberals, and anyone else standing in the way of…

Any Christian who still defends Trump as he lies, harasses, insults and demeans those around him can only do so by saying, in effect, “So what? We are all morally depraved.”

The GOP’s morally indefensible position on maternity care shows the hollowness of the party’s claim to be “pro-life.” It also shows a way forward on abortion for Democrats. Texas Rep. Peter Olson this…

Over the past few weeks, a conflict has unfolded in Kentucky, revealing a split in American Christian conceptions of the individual and the individual’s role in society. Kentucky’s evangelical…

On Monday, the Supreme Court took a dramatically new approach to the First Amendment, though you wouldn’t have known it from reading the brief, oversimplified opinion. In Trinity Lutheran Church of…

For LGBT legal nerds like me, June 26 is an important day. Every major pro-equality decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the past 15 years has been issued on June 26. From the decimation…

Hand to God, every mainstream commentator on religion and politics has a liturgy—a catechism—they must learn before they are allowed to publish in a big-ticket outlet. It goes like this: Q: Who…