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Searching for Grace: Bend or break?

This is the final in a five-part fictional story set in the early 1990s about Rev. Paul Graham and his congregation, Grace United Church of Christ. In previous episodes Tommy Branson, a gay man and a lifelong member of Paul’s…

We’re still terrified and amazed

I think I know why the women were too terrified to say anything that first Easter morning. It’s the Gospel of Mark’s year in the Lectionary, which means this Easter we were left with an unsatisfying ending to the resurrection…

Iowa governor signs religious freedom law at Christian group’s event

Iowa’s governor signed a Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law April 3, thrilling religious conservatives who claim it protects religious liberties while worrying liberals who fear it will be used to favor religious claims over other rights and open the…

Indiana court cites religious freedom as reason to override abortion ban

Religion won on the opposite side of an abortion case than usual April 4, part of a trend of those who favor access to abortion declaring they have a religious right to the procedure. That counters the more common narrative…

McRaney hearing explores whether there are any times courts may decide ‘religious’ matters

Imagine a Jewish family taking their eight-day-old boy to a mohel for circumcision and discovering the Jewish official is drunk and maims the child’s genitals. Would the family be able to sue the mohel and others involved in facilitating the…

Even in March Madness, the playing field remains uneven for women

Every March, millions of people locate their yellow highlighters and black pens as they compete against family, friends and coworkers for bragging rights in their March Madness bracket contest. It all started in a Staten Island bar in 1977, where…

Women and girls suffer disproportionately from religious freedom violations, experts warn

Special attention must be paid to the plight of women and girls in addressing religious freedom violations around the world, Nazila Ghanea said during a panel discussion hosted by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “Now, you might think…

A Colorado city fights back against the prosperity preacher trying to ‘take over’ their town

Voters appeared to reject Andrew Wommack’s plan to “take over” the city of Woodland Park, Colo., on Tuesday, electing a new mayor and four city council members who prevailed over candidates the health-and-wealth preacher endorsed. “We’re going to be Woodland…

The UN security council is a sham

You might be excused for not knowing that the United Nations Security Council finally passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza on March 26 after the United States abstained from voting. Almost six months have passed since Hamas…

Metaxas calls Bonhoeffer’s relatives ‘Jew-hating lunatics’

North Carolina pastor abruptly forced out of prominent pulpit

Responding to the militarization of immigration policy

Meddling with Methodism and domesticating the Baptists