The religious right has infiltrated the office of Health and Human Services, and reproductive rights are the first target.
Cory Booker could be a candidate for the ‘religious left’
If he does run for president, as many expect, Booker may be one of the first Democratic candidates in decades to actively cultivate support from religious progressives.
The evangelical women who reject Trump
Evangelical women helped Trump get elected. Now some of them are turning against him and his candidates – and could sway the outcome in key elections in November.
South Carolina is lobbying to allow discrimination against Jewish parents
That discrimination would apply not just to Jewish parents, but also to parents who are Muslim, Catholic, Unitarian, atheist, agnostic or other some other non-Protestant Christian denomination.
Josh Harris is kissing ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ goodbye
Joshua Harris, the Christian pastor and author who wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye as a teenager, says he no longer agrees with the book’s central idea.
Bible Museum says five of its Dead Sea Scrolls are fake
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., says five of its most valuable artifacts — once thought to be part of the historic Dead Sea Scrolls — are fake and will not be displayed anymore.
Evangelicals are paying high moral price for anti-abortion gains. What would Jesus do?
White evangelicals are trading their moral core for anti-abortion gains. Time to rethink support for Trump, Republicans and policies that are inhumane.
Religious freedom advocate Charles Haynes: ‘It’s not a choice’
Charles Haynes, a First Amendment scholar, has spent more than two decades helping schools walk the line between religion and state and advocating for the rights of people of a range of faiths and no faith.
Unearthing the past: Furman reckons with its early leadership
While Richard Furman, the university’s namesake, is a controversial figure in the school’s history — he wrote a moral defense of slavery for the Southern Baptist Convention in 1823 — perhaps more cloaked in racist rhetoric was his son, James…