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Religious right funder reflects on her support for Christian Reconstructionism.

How did we get to the point where the infringement of a religious obligation is constitutionally irrelevant despite the existence in the text of a constitutional protection of religion?

30 years after torpedoing the ERA, Mormon media markets financial security to women.

GOP hopeful expresses shock that a “black man” supports abortion rights.

Tea party favorite courts the religious right.

Religious right activists ruling forces them into “war” with the LGBT community they claim they “love.”

Bentley finds himself behind a pulpit and seems to forget he’s representing people other than evangelical Christians.

A new book of Dr. King’s speeches to labor arrives just as union bashing is enjoying a resurgence.

What inspired you to write A House for Hope ? What sparked your interest? As lifelong progressive people of faith, we are tired of religion getting a bad rap because religious fundamentalists and right-wingers lend the power of religion to support unholy causes. We disagree with their…

In the fall of 2009 I visited eight cities in China. I discussed Marxist understanding of religion, homosexuality, the persistence of popular religiosity, freedom of research, and approaches to the study of religion with Chinese colleagues in a carefree and open atmosphere. The Chinese colleagues followed closely what was happening outside and asked me about the schism within the Anglican Communion over the issue of homosexuality. I found many new books on religion by Chinese scholars and translations of Western religious texts selling in local bookstores. I offered lectures on feminist theology in top universities and a Protestant seminary. Religion was no longer a taboo subject. These kinds of exchanges would have been unimaginable twenty years ago.