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Religion Dispatches

Circuit Court Rejects Priests for Life Contraception Challenge

As if further proof were required that challenges to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act are largely political stunts designed to push the “religious freedom” narrative, Priests for…
Patricia Miller
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Christian Inmate Suing Indiana to Recognize Religion

An Eastern Orthodox prison inmate won a small but important victory in his legal fight to have the Indiana Department of Corrections recognize his religion. A federal district court has ruled that…
Daniel Silliman
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Galen Watts

Political Research Associates
Galen Watts is a PhD Candidate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Program at Queen’s University. He researches the basic values, belief-systems, and practices that inform contemporary spirituality among…
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End-Times Watcher Sees Satan in an Energy Drink

Looking for Satan in all the wrong places.
William R. Black
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Religion Dispatches

US Bishops Meeting: Pope Who?

The U.S. bishops’ semi-annual meeting, which concluded in Baltimore on Thursday, was one giant raspberry to Pope Francis’ agenda. The meeting was heavy on the bishops’ favorite culture war themes, but…
Patricia Miller
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Church=State in Putin's Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA law school and NORC at the University of Chicago released last Friday found that residents in ninety percent of 52 surveyed countries have become more…
Peter Montgomery
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The Ordinary Jesus: An Excerpt from Christ Actually: The Son of God for the Secular Age

The divinity of Jesus is problematic.
James Carroll
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Feeding the Hungry vs. Antigay Activism: A Double Standard for Religious Freedom?

If you’ve watched the news or been on social media at all this past week, you’ve by now probably heard that, along with two other ministers, 90-year-old WWII veteran Arnold Abbot, was arrested last…
Hollis Phelps Ryne Beddard
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Pastor of Kentucky Church Severed From Baptists Over LGBT Inclusion: Not Activism, Just Honesty

On November 11 Kentucky’s Southern Baptists voted overwhelmingly at their annual state meeting to sever ties with the historically important Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville citing the…
Mike Greer
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Will Growing Alliance With Christian Zionists Split the American Jewish Establishment?

Peter Beinart, writing about Sheldon Adelson’s remarks at the inaugural conference of the Israeli American Council (which I wrote about here), argues that Adelson’s comment ” I don’t think the Bible…
Sarah Posner
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