Last May, congress passed the Take It Down Act, requiring websites to remove “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions” of identifiable individuals. This includes both real and AI-generated content. But this law only addresses content publication, not the various ways in which...
A federal judge on Friday ruled that Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old accused of killing nine parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church last year, is competent to stand trial.
Most of what we think we know about the earliest Christians comes from later traditions, Hollywood epics and, sadly, “The Da Vinci Code.”
In the past month we have seen one set of fears replaced by another, which has made the deep division within American society even more visceral. President-elect Donald Trump recognized the fear in many Americans and leveraged that fear for…
What unifies the thousands of water protectors is devotion and prayer. Tribal leaders told us repeatedly these aren’t protests; these are ceremonies being held at a sacred place. Understanding the spirituality driving this struggle was an eye-opening experience.
For many of my compatriots, belonging is measured by the intensity of righteous indignation generated toward Fidel. If I don’t join them in dancing in the streets, then I must truly be an apologist for Fidel. But regardless as to how justified my hostility toward Fidel may be, I refuse to base my actions and responses on hatred.
The election is over and the season of recrimination begins. Donald Trump will be president, some say, because rural white America is a sinkhole of fundamentalist racism. Others blame the outcome on the aloof arrogance of a latte-swilling “coastal elite”…
Comfortable in his Maryland home, the Rev. Eric So could not stop thinking about the plight of refugees. The pastor felt so moved that he made an unusual decision: He would not just be a pastor to these refugee families….
This is not a call to loosen our belts, to push away from the table or to count calories this Thanksgiving. This is not an endorsement of products marked with claims of half the fat, low fat, skim or light….
Jewish synagogues have been defaced with swastikas. Latina women have been threatened. Muslim women have been forced to remove their hijabs. On Veterans Day, Marie Boyle, a U.S. army veteran from the Philippines, was told to “Go back to Mexico.”…
A former Southern Baptist Convention leader who made the motion to sever ties with the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty at the SBC annual meeting in 1990 now says it might be time for Southern Baptists to “call it…
Nearly 200 religious and civil rights groups are petitioning President Obama to dismantle the regulatory framework behind a Homeland Security program critics say discriminates against Muslims and Arabs.
A change to a popular translation of the Bible could affect readers’ views on marriage and gender roles.
