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On my bloggingheads show last week, I spoke with Lydia Bean, author of The Politics of Evangelical Identity, an ethnographic study of four congregations, two (one evangelical and one Pentecostal) in…

In his 2009 report, Toxic to Democracy: Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, & Scapegoating, former PRA Senior Analyst Chip Berlet traces the roots of conspiracism throughout U.S. and European history…

On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard arguments in Holt v. Hobbs, a case about whether a prisoner in Arkansas has the right to grow a ½-inch beard for religious reasons. The media commentary has…

The biggest news to come out of the bishops’ synod in Rome so far is the acknowledgement that when it comes to talking about issues of family and sexuality, language matters. Among the examples of…

Ryan Lizza describes the recent dust-up over Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) support for emergency contraception, a stance that Lizza says places him at odds with his own support for so-called personhood…

[ Image above from HBO’s “Hunted,” a new documentary on LGBT persecution in Russia.] LGBT News in the U.S. was dominated this week by the Supreme Court’s decision, announced on Monday, not to hear…

For these “religious freedom” advocates, it’s women.

Randall Balmer on Jimmy Carter, the role of the president’s faith, and the real reason for the rise of the Religious Right.

It’s the same pattern of behavior we’re seeing from other “religious freedom” fighters.

The Supreme Court declined to hear five same-sex marriage cases on Monday, thus opening the door to the expansion of marriage rights into 30 states. For supporters the decision represents an…