Author Archive
Articles by Marie Griffith
Essay
Southern Baptists, Gender Hierarchy, and the Road to Trump
Many Southern Baptists in the 1970s supported abortion rights and gender equality. What happened?
By Marie Griffith
Editor’s Note
White Christians Must Condemn White Supremacy
To be silent or to engage in false equivalencies is to be complicit in the growth of this noxious fascism.
By Marie Griffith
Editor’s Note
The Morality Tale of Health Care Reform
Religious leaders have been at the forefront of the resistance to the GOP’s repeal and replace bills.
By Marie Griffith
Interview
Healing a House Divided: An Interview with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
The Episcopal leader urges the nation to move beyond polarization.
By Marie Griffith
Editor’s Note
Bearing Witness at the Women’s March on Washington
“I’m a WITNESS for JUSTICE!” read the front, and on the back, “¡Soy TESTIGO de la JUSTICIA!”
By Marie Griffith
Editor’s Note
Where Do We Go from Here?
The 2016 election is history, and several things are clearer to us now than they were before. It turns out that vast swaths of Americans …
By Marie Griffith
Interview
What Phyllis Schlafly Believed: An Unreleased Interview with the Late Anti-Feminist Activist
Phyllis Schlafly, who died yesterday at the age of 92, will long be remembered as one of the most politically consequential figures of her time. …
By Marie Griffith
Editor’s Note
Orlando Shooting: An Attack at the Center of America’s Fault Lines
First, the sorrow. Then, the fury. Next, what? Countless Americans, across our political divides, experience stages one and two after a massacre such as …
By Marie Griffith
Editor’s Note
On Planned Parenthood, Beware of False Prophets
“The Bible says, ‘Beware of false prophets,’” outgoing House Speaker John Boehner told Face the Nation host John Dickerson on September 27. Boehner was referring …
By Marie Griffith
Interview
The Establishment Clause: An Interview with Judge Guido Calabresi
On February 27, Judge Guido Calabresi visited Washington University in St. Louis to deliver the lecture, “What about the Establishment Clause?” The program was a …
By Marie Griffith