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Buttigieg Twists Christianity: 'Salvation' Means Being 'Useful'
Tyler O'Neil, PJM
Buttigieg on Faith Bringing Unity and its Role in 2020
Jim Wallis, Sojourners
SCOTUS Must Protect Religious Foster Care
Lori Windham, The Federalist
To Take on the Religious Right, We Need a Religious Left
Bianca Brooks, NYT
Americans Support Religious Freedom, but it's Complicated
Kelsey Dallas, DN
Democrats: Start Talking about International Religious Freedom
Peter Henne, RNS
The Forgotten Quaker Turned Proto-Zionist
Michael Medved, Commentary
Growing Up Mormon, Knowing the Sky Was Purple
Alexandra Fallgreen, AutoStraddle
How Boomers Ruined American Judaism
Liel Leibovitz, Tablet
Kanye Puts Osteen's Prosperity Gospel Back Under Spotlight
Sarah Bailey, WP
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Environmental Activists Should Follow Pope Francis' Example

Grazie Pozo Christie

Watching the worldwide climate protests organized by the group Extinction Rebellion over the last month has been a sobering experience.... Read More

Diplomacy is the Best Way to Achieve Peace With Iran

Diane Randall

Recently, I joined a group of Christian leaders to meet with Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif, in New York. This was not... Read More

Congress Should Recognize the Armenian Christian Genocide Now

Toufic Baaklini

More than a century after the Ottoman Empire’s systematic and deliberate destruction of millions of its Christian subjects –... Read More

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Buttigieg Twists Christianity: 'Salvation' Means Being 'Useful'

Tyler O'Neil, PJM

On Wednesday night, Mayor Pete Buttigieg took a break from lecturing the Religious Right about how it isn' Christian enough. Instead, he... Read More

Buttigieg on Faith Bringing Unity and its Role in 2020

Jim Wallis, Sojourners

In the second season of The Soul of the Nation, Jim Wallis is sitting down with some of the presidential candidates to discuss how their... Read More

SCOTUS Must Protect Religious Foster Care

Lori Windham, The Federalist

America is in desperate need of more loving homes for kids. Late last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services took... Read More

To Take on the Religious Right, We Need a Religious Left

Bianca Brooks, NYT

I remember the first time I encountered God. It was 2002 and my mother, with three small children in tow, had just arrived at the doors of... Read More

Americans Support Religious Freedom, but it's Complicated

Kelsey Dallas, DN

Most Americans believe the law should offer broad protections to churches, religious organizations and people of faith. But when... Read More

Democrats: Start Talking about International Religious Freedom

Peter Henne, RNS

As the Iowa caucuses approach, the Democratic presidential field continues to churn. Candidates try to clarify their stances on a variety of... Read More

The Forgotten Quaker Turned Proto-Zionist

Michael Medved, Commentary

Israel’s contemporary critics angrily insist that the special relationship between America and the Jewish state stems solely from the... Read More

Growing Up Mormon, Knowing the Sky Was Purple

Alexandra Fallgreen, AutoStraddle

“Are you ready?” he asks. “No.” It’s January 12, 2016. My brother and I sit huddled in the rented Subaru that... Read More

How Boomers Ruined American Judaism

Liel Leibovitz, Tablet

With a couple of new books out, my colleagues at Tablet magazine and I are currently on book tours around the country. The indignities of... Read More

Kanye Puts Osteen's Prosperity Gospel Back Under Spotlight

Sarah Bailey, WP

A performance by artist Kanye West at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston on Sunday has launched a debate among Christians over... Read More

RCReligion Analysis

Environmental Activists Should Follow Pope Francis' Example

Grazie Pozo Christie

Watching the worldwide climate protests organized by the group Extinction Rebellion over the last month has been a sobering experience.... Read More

Diplomacy is the Best Way to Achieve Peace With Iran

Diane Randall

Recently, I joined a group of Christian leaders to meet with Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammed Javad Zarif, in New York. This was not... Read More

Congress Should Recognize the Armenian Christian Genocide Now

Toufic Baaklini

More than a century after the Ottoman Empire’s systematic and deliberate destruction of millions of its Christian subjects –... Read More

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Religious Freedom

The Gay Rights Legislation Conservatives Should Support

Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner

Religious liberty and conscience rights are certainly worth defending against an increasing liberal onslaught. A female wax technician should never be forced by the state to wax a transgender woman’s testicles. Nor should a Christian baker be forced to endorse messages he doesn’t believe in. All have the First Amendment right to be free from compelled speech, and that right d... Read More

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Religion and Politics

Does Socialism Have to Be Godless?

Heath Carter, Christianity Today

“Socialist” has more than double the letters of the average expletive and, for generations now, has packed a corresponding punch in American public life. To hurl the word at someone has been to mark that person not just outside the mainstream but dangerously so. What reasonable person could espouse such a “godless” political philosophy, not to mention one so prone to nightm... Read More

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Mormon Girls Acknowledge Heavenly Mother. Boys Don't.

Jana Riess, Religion News Service

The new theme for the Young Men organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been unveiled, to mixed reactions. Some good news: it’s not just young women who are being primed to have a family someday. The revised theme tells teenage boys that they should “ prepare to become a diligent missionary, loyal husband, and loving father by being a true dis... Read More

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