focus on the family

Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson died last week, and there was much rejoicing —particularly among people whose families of origin subscribed to Dobson’s punitively patriarchal and…

This exclusive three-minute clip, featuring historian Audrey Clare Farley, is from the May 17 episode of Straight White American Jesus, a podcast hosted by Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller. RD will be…

On Wednesday, January 6, I, like almost everyone else in America, watched as a mob of predominantly white domestic terrorists stormed the Capitol, in an attempt to prevent the Senate from certifying…

This view of government did not spring into existence with this administration or with the Truth Project—Focus users have been learning it for decades.

As news spread about the death of “ex-gay therapy” pioneer Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, one of Nicolosi’s victims argued that it’s time to uncover the harrowing details of the debunked “sexual orientation…

Donald Trump is now a ” baby Christian”? Now that Trump has become the presumptive GOP nominee—the old guard has stepped forward to engage in an ancient ritual of the Right, dating back to the Reagan…

“I’m not the author of scripture,” Daly confides to NPR’s Rachel Martin.

As Election Day approaches, the most craven, partisan, dire (and dumb) religious appeals begin to surface.

How did Rick Santorum roll over Mitt Romney in all those primary states? Where did the energy come from? While pundits still insist that he won’t topple the moneyed Mitt—whose campaign still generates about as much excitement as the winter sport of curling—Santorum is holding onto the spotlight long enough to put religious populism front and center.

Exodus International appears to be re-thinking its commitment to transforming gay Christians into straight ones. So now it is the larger world’s turn to ask: is that kind of change really possible?