Tag: Religion

How Religious Freedom Could Help Liberals Win the Abortion Rights War

The state of Indiana, along with Becket and other allies, does not make a serious constitutional argument. But it does take a view of religion that rings true to plenty of Americans. Some of those Americans might be judges. One reason that people might not understand liberal Jews, or progressives in general, to be really […]

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Earthquakes, Wars: Black Church Leaders Answer Whether We’re in the End of Times

The latest headlines have thrown some Christ followers into a panic, worrying the end times is coming sooner rather than later. However, a few church leaders weighed in on the frenzy to set the record straight, and hopefully, calm everyone down. Senator Raphael Warnock On The Alarming Calls To Ban Books And What To Do […]

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The Vatican’s stand on gender-affirming care

What happened The Vatican published a document on Monday titled “Dignitas Infinita” (Infinite Dignity) enumerating “grave violations of human dignity.” Examples in the declaration include “gender theory” and surgically changing a person’s sex. Who said what Changing one’s biological sex “risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” the […]

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The Vatican’s stand on gender-affirming care

What happened The Vatican published a document on Monday titled “Dignitas Infinita” (Infinite Dignity) enumerating “grave violations of human dignity.” Examples in the declaration include “gender theory” and surgically changing a person’s sex. Who said what Changing one’s biological sex “risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” the […]

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Right-Wing Influencers Are Fighting Over What It Means to Be White

And then there’s Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, who seems to have made a whole grift of an apparently looming conversion. Though notoriously cagey on God’s existence, Peterson widely and tearfully lectures on Christ. Last year, soon after slamming Pope Francis for calling his flock to social justice, Peterson was spotted in St. Peter’s Square with […]

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Against Zionism. Oh, and by the Way: Against Anti-Zionism, Too.

Arguments over the nature of Zionism, anti-Zionism, and their relationship to progressive politics belong in seminar rooms and scholarly publications, not in our political arena. Israel has been around for 75 years and is not going anywhere. Yes, many people continue to dispute Israel’s “right to exist.” Lately, some leftist anti-Zionists have begun to deny […]

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Against Zionism—and Anti-Zionism Too

And what of anti-Zionism? ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt insists that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism, full stop”; a view that appears to animate pretty much every mainstream U.S. Jewish organizational leader, countless political pundits, and some of the wealthiest donors to America’s most prestigious universities. Lately, some conservative writers, including the neocon Joshua Muravchik writing in The […]

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