In a follow up to allegations that a Catholic hospital in Bartlesville, Oklahoma had told doctors they could no longer prescribe contraceptives for use as birth control, new rules have been issued…
For several months there have been claims of an occult revival in New York City. Much like America’s evangelical tradition, its metaphysical tradition is in a constant state of revival. The 1960s and…
Nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls have been ripped from their desks and chairs, notebooks and pencils, smiles and giggles and sent to hell. They’ve been sold, trafficked for sex and reproduction and…
(This post has been updated.) Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest Jewish denomination in the United States, has issued a harsh statement following yesterday’s…
Move over, Kardashians: the hottest new reality stars have sworn off sex and wear the same outfit every day! At least, that’s the desired outcome for Lifetime’s upcoming TV series, The Sisterhood. The…
At Vox.com, Dylan Matthews argues (with charts) that the retention rate among people raised with no religion is much lower than among people raised with religion — in other words, that people raised…
Pushed to the Altar tells the story of how a right-wing social movement took power in the Bush administration and installed unproven anti-poverty policies to fulfill ideological valorization of the…
