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Micah Moore is scheduled to stand trial next month on charges he murdered Bethany Deaton two years ago in Kansas City suburb. The case has drawn national attention because both Moore and Deaton were…

When a seminary is in the news, two truisms apply: one, it is often bad news, and two, it will quickly fade from view. Late last month when I saw General Theological Seminary in the Huffington Post, I…

If I didn’t know better I would think that an establishment called The Hitching Post was more likely to be an old-time saloon than the newest front in the religious exemption wars. But that just goes…

In a twist that shows just how absurd the entire debate over “religious freedom” and the Affordable Care Act has become — and the futility of trying to find any compromise to satisfy religious…

Last month, RD’s Diane Winston commented on the overhyping of a recent Pew survey suggesting that Americans have a “ desire for more religion in politics and public life.” This week, in a commentary…

In the New York Times, Ross Douthat cheers the conservative rebuff at the recently concluded family synod of the “implied papal position” favoring liberalization both “in the church’s attitude toward…

Changes in tone are no substitute for changes in substance.

A Coeur d’Alene, Idaho couple, Donald and Evelyn Knapp, are the new cause celebre of the Christian right, symbols of a supposedly strong-arm government forcing religious opponents of marriage equality…

The Hobby Lobby decision relied, to some extent, on the existence of a thing called “closely-held corporations”; only that’s not really a thing at all.

Reading the same piece by Robert Jones in the Atlantic that I wrote about in my post Tuesday, about dwindling numbers of white evangelicals in the South, Religion News Service’s Tobin Grant, a…