Rick Plasterer

Rick Plasterer is a staff writer for the Institute on Religion & Democracy. Follow him on Twitter @RickPlasterer.

Author Archive

  • Oct 22, 2025
    Spano asked whether Protestants should be concerned about the Christian past. One point of view is that they should not. He referred to the sixteenth century radical...
  • Sep 29, 2025
    Although the legal conflict over the conscience objection of religious merchants to facilitating homosexual and transgender behavior might seem to have been resolved with...
  • Sep 17, 2025
    An earlier article reviewed the first part of a summation by Timon Cline, Editor-in-Chief of American Reformer on the effect of the Everson v. Board of...
  • Jul 25, 2025
    Vietnam does not bring happy memories to Americans. There a long, interminable war was the first loss for America on the global stage. A period of collectivization of the former...
  • Jul 14, 2025
    Transhumanism has emerged in the early twenty-first century as the cutting edge challenge to Christianity and other traditional religions, picking up on the Enlightenment idea...
  • Feb 4, 2025
    Christians today are acutely aware of the secularization of the West and the rise of Christianity in the Global South. But many are not aware of a similar geographic and demographic...