The capitulation is complete. Without a whimper from any of his fellow bishops, the cardinal archbishop of New York has inextricably linked the Catholic Church in the United States to the Republican Party and, particularly, President Donald Trump.
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Farris Wilks, Texas fracking billionaire and funder of extreme anti-abortion candidates and causes, preaches in a church founded by his parents, teaching women should be silent during services and abortion is murder even in cases of rape or incest.
This timely study, writes reviewer Davis, "recovers the theoretical integrity and conceptual complexity of a movement often reduced to the practical challenges it presented to establishment theologies."
Why is the US Christian nationalist right looking to Russia? The thought shatters old notions as odd indeed. It's supposed to be the left that's cozy with Russia. Since 1990 it's a new world. Newsweek gives a peek into it...
Hosting last week’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a worldwide summit of enemies of abortion and same-sex marriage, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said spreading this brand of religious freedom would be a new State Department “mission.”
On July 30th, Attorney General Jeff Sessions hosted the Religious Liberty Summit. It was clearly designed to advance the Trump Administration’s “twisted and dangerous view of religious freedom, one that uses religion to discriminate and harm others.”
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Why should we care about historical biopics such as HBO’s mini-series Gunpowder? Is it because it stars Kit Harington—the heartthrob Jon Snow of Game of Thrones fame? Is it because of its message of religious bigotry and violence?
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