When Vladimir Putin recently announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine that were purported to have voted in favor of joining Russia, he did so in what’s been described as an “unhinged rant.”…
They care for trans children and teenagers—and they’re getting death threats. On August 30th, Boston Children’s Hospital was shut down due to a bomb threat , and shut down a second time on September…
This is the final post of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/16/2022 Afternoon The election reform panel is a study in fear mongering and…
The following is part of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/16/2022 Morning Attendance is down a bit this morning at Family Research…
The following is part of RD and PRA’s special coverage of the Pray Vote Stand Summit. All posts can be found here. - eds 9/15/2022 Morning First Baptist Atlanta is huge—a sprawling campus of parking…
When it was published in 1988, The Satanic Verses wasn’t immediately controversial. But the charged politics of Islam and the West meant some kind of blowback to Salman Rushdie’s novel was likely: The…
Religious freedom has long been a rallying cry of the religious and political right. In recent years, it’s been used to provide a rationale for exemptions from a variety of civil right laws. But at…
Americans must stop thinking of the United States Supreme Court as a court of law. It’s a court bent on giving political whims the force of law and on converting America into a Christian nation. Some…
This morning as we again awaken to the realization that American women have lost their bodily autonomy , that five individuals can decide that States’ rights can’t control guns, but that they do have…
On Sunday, an investigation firm called Guidepost Solutions released a 300-page report recounting a disturbingly familiar pattern of abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the mostly…