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Alturi profiles human rights activist Neela Ghoshal, senior researcher for the LGBT rights program at Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch called on US President Barack Obama to address anti-LGBT…

The 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia came to an end last night with Hillary Clinton’s speech, in which she accepted the presidential nomination. Clinton, of course, was the star of…

The whipcrack of agon has lashed America’s 2016, and Tim LaHaye has died. The extraordinarily influential evangelical remains best known for his co-authorship of the Left Behind novels, ubiquitous…

In another post, I looked at some of the religious narratives surfacing around the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Let’s turn now to a view from within the convention—specifically, at…

You know your summer is not going well when Donald Trump chooses your birthday to come to your place of work and deliver a public address. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? The Trump…

The old refrain that white liberals are the bane of systemic change applies differently when we are looking at the record of white liberals during the first half of this country’s 240-year official…

You’ve heard me talk before about the perennial (quadrennial, I guess) stories about religion and politics that always pop up in presidential campaign years: things like “Democrats must reach out to…

Welcome to the first in a sporadic series of posts on popularly misunderstood, misused, or misleading terms, stories, and ideas from the world of religion. In this first installment, “Miss Conception…

If the mass killings in Orlando and in Charleston have anything in common it’s that both the dance club and the church were thought to be “safe space.” The horrors that unfolded in both places tell us…