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Religion Dispatches
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…
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On Sunday, May 22, a third-party investigation of sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention released a nearly 300-page report detailing the cover-up of hundreds of abuse accusations and an…
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Last week saw another clash about women’s (in)equality play out online between leaders in evangelical Christian culture. In the clamor for the high-ground of evangelical legitimacy, something happened…
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The Christian Boy’s and Men’s Titanic Society’s revisionist history.
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Republicans attack Planned Parenthood over sex and contraception, but their base may care to differ.
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Hardesty’s legacy: the realization that biblical interpretation is just that—interpretation.
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The religious zealotry behind the push to defund Planned Parenthood means the budget deal is not the end of the Republican effort.
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