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Two U.S. jurisdictions will consider three openly gay candidates for bishop this month. Long before she learned that my sister was gay, our mother had been risking her reputation, and her career, to…

I’m a prude. Let’s just get that out there right now. I blame my Southern Baptist upbringing for my prudishness. I was taught that the body was inherently shameful, the earthen vessel we had been…

In another sign of just how far the agendas of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Pope Francis have diverged, it’s worth noting that at their recently concluded fall plenary, the bishops…

Historian Heather White on the surprising role of Protestantism in the story of LGBT justice in the U.S.

“I held my tongue as she told me, ‘Son, fear is the heart of love.’ So I never went back.” – Death Cab for Cutie, from “I Will Follow You into the Dark” (2005) Ahead of today’s historic Supreme Court…

University of Pennsylvania senior Katie Sgarro writes about her involvement with friend Sayid Abdullaev in the creation of a project called Asylum Connect, “born out of Sayid’s personal experiences as…

Despite media reports to the contrary, it doesn’t appear that San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is backing down from his attempt to dictate the private morality of teachers in San…

The Raelians, who regard the Catholic Church as their sexually repressive nemesis, say they’ve launched Clitoraid to help the victims of female circumcision.

Psychologists, counselors, politicians, friends, parents, or would-be moralists make way for Elder Callister.

While researching the history of philosophical arguments about the existence of God, it gradually became clear that my undertaking was in fact a study of masculinity, so shot through were these arguments with gendered assumptions and ideals. And, as a study of masculinity, it was also a study of patriarchy.