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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Why Only Cafeteria Catholics Can Survive in American Politics
What Tim Kaine and Mike Pence say about the diluted identity of the American Church
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Mike Blake / Reuters Even the Government’s Smartest Lawyers Can’t Figure Out Religious Liberty
Conflicts between secular ideals and tenets of faith are ultimately problems of culture, not law.
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AP Phyllis Schlafly's Successful Counter-Revolution
Donald Trump is a testament to the lasting influence of one of the 20th century’s most talented and effective political organizers.
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D Ramey Logan / Wikimedia / Zak Bickel … Utah Is 2016's Strangest Swing State
A deep-red state has become coveted territory for Hillary Clinton and a source of shame for Donald Trump. How did Mormons become the redeemers of a disgust-filled campaign?
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Joe Raedle / Getty / Zak Bickel / … What Should American Jews Make of Ivanka Trump?
She’s the Orthodox daughter of David Duke’s favorite candidate for president—and a perfect cipher for the anxiety of assimilation.
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Neil Hall / Reuters Religious Freedom Doesn't Protect Child Abuse
An Indiana woman’s claim that she beat her son because of her faith is unlikely to succeed in court, but it could have implications for how Americans perceive these kinds of arguments in the future.
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Osservatore Romano / Reuters What Would the Pope and Mark Zuckerberg Even Talk About?
The bishop of Rome and the CEO of Facebook met at the Vatican on Monday.
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AP Why Do Black Activists Care About Palestine?
A controversy over anti-Israel statements in the Movement for Black Lives political platform shows the long history of tension between Jews and blacks in the U.S.
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Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters Keeping Faith Without Hurting LGBT Students
Some conservative Christian colleges do not let young people be in same-sex relationships. The government should keep allowing this, but schools also have an obligation to be more empathetic.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Mike Pence Wants to Create 'Safe Havens' Where Refugees Could Be Vetted
Not even Christians or other religious minorities fleeing violence and ISIS would be exempt from the Trump campaign’s immigration ban.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Trump-Loving Christians Owe Bill Clinton an Apology
Conservative evangelicals were unwilling to offer forgiveness to a Democrat who asked for it. But they have freely offered it to a Republican who doesn’t want it.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Black Pastors Are Breaking the Law to Get Hillary Clinton Elected
Nearly a third of these churchgoers say they’ve heard clergy support her from the pulpit in the past few months, according to a survey.
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David Goldman / AP The Church Camps That Aim to Bridge Race Relations
Religious communities across the United States host “Freedom Schools” to empower kids to change the world.
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Charles Krupa / AP The Gay-Rights State That Took Years to Protect Transgender Citizens
A new Massachusetts law makes gender-identity discrimination fully illegal. Even in a liberal state, the effort took a long time.
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Ahmad Gharabli / AFP / Getty More Scenes from Ramadan 2016
As the holy month comes to a close, a look back at celebrations across the globe.
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Bettmann / Corbis via Getty The Conservative, Christian Case for Working Women
An evangelical Christian and avowed feminist argues that God intends every woman to work.
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Michael Conroy / AP Indiana Tried To Raise Ethical Challenges to Abortion, but Will Probably Fail
An injunction against the state’s distinctive fetal-abnormality law suggests this won’t be the legislation that forces courts to grapple with bioethics.
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Rogelio V. Solis / AP Why Mississippi’s Law on Religious Rights and LGBT Discrimination Got Blocked
In a 60-page ruling, a U.S. district-court judge stopped enforcement of a law providing religious exemptions for LGBT discrimination.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Most American Christians Believe They’re Victims of Discrimination
They say religious discrimination against Christians is as big a problem as discrimination against other groups.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Just Another Sinner, Born Again
The claim that Donald Trump has come to Jesus follows a long pattern of redemption narratives among American evangelicals.
