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Religious groups remain divided over the President’s approach to immigration, LGBTQ rights and other issues.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the...

I grew up as an evangelical, but over the last few years, it has become...

In an historic 6-3 Supreme Court decision handed down last month, Trump-appointed justice Neil Gorusch...

Journalism never fully grappled with Elizabeth Warren’s complicated use of religion. Even more than the...

By Jim Coppoc We’ve all seen the memes.  Jesus was a Jewish socialist.  Anti-government, common...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is the latest Democrat to argue the Senate filibuster rule stands in...

Our Twitter accounts are not verified, our Facebook posts do not go viral, and our...

Donald Trump's authority model includes profoundly worrying dynamics that scholars identify in cults. The charismatic...

I teach Biblical Studies at a small liberal arts college in Birmingham, Alabama. I am...

I grew up in a generation that didn’t vote. We had collectively come to the...

As it becomes increasingly obvious that the crude, lying, egomaniacal, bigoted, impulsive, anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-environmental...

Most of us prefer to hang out with people who share our political views. This...

On this Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, I have a question for my readers, particularly...

By Matthew Snider.   George Orwell's monumental political novel, 1984, has been used almost endlessly...

There’s an easy, but not simple, answer why Hillary Clinton will not win the presidential...

In the 1980s and 90s, the American media was dramatically obsessed with documenting the rise...

Progressive voters under 30 years famously helped President Barack Obama take the presidency in 2008....

Conservative Christians have lost sight of what it means to be pro-life. The pro-life position...

Any call for Bernie Sanders to drop out of the Democratic race is just ridiculous....

By James Phillips With the stroke of a pen on Tuesday, Gov. Phil Bryant proved...

You’ve been thinking it; now, I’ve written it. Donald Trump has female problems. I don’t...

Whereas, it has become increasingly difficult to account for the spilt unborn seminal fluid; Whereas,...

Confession: I was prepared to do it. I was prepared to commit defensive voting in...

In 1992, when Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes” insisted that then Governor Bill Clinton and...

There are so many candidates for the most ridiculous statement by a presidential contender or...

When I was a Young Republican, I thought people on welfare just didn’t want to...

Is God relevant?  To whom and for whom do you pray? These were the questions...

There’s an exercise I often used with beginning technical communicators to help them understand how...