Bioethics
Interview
The Political Legacy of Progressive Evangelicals
For all the media attention paid to the Religious Right, much less energy has been spent looking into its counterpart, the Religious Left. And yet, …
By Eric C. Miller
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
Essay
Pope Francis Comes to Washington
As recently as the 1950s, it was gospel in certain liberal circles that Catholicism was, to take a leaf from Ben Carson, “inconsistent with the …
By Leslie Woodcock Tentler
Essay
When Our Truths Are Ignored: Proslavery Theology’s Legacy
For an African American writer during slavery, there was an expectation that a “white envelope” framed the “black message.” For autobiographers like Frederick Douglass and …
By Yolanda Pierce
Essay
What Should Be Made of the Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos?
It is indeed terrible to watch: A doctor arrives for lunch, breezily chats about L.A. traffic, casually gives out medical advice (drink water if you …
By Laurie Zoloth
Report
The Rise of Christian Conservative Legal Organizations
Two years ago, a longtime customer walked into Barronelle Stutzman’s flower shop with a request: the customer—who is gay—asked Stutzman to provide flowers for his …
By Daniel Bennett
Report
Ebola and U.S. Hospital Chaplains: A (Deliberately) Untold Story
In August, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, medical missionaries who were serving in Liberia, arrived at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital. The facility was the …
By Betsy Shirley
Profile
Meet Chad Connelly, the Republican Party’s Faith Ambassador
On a Thursday morning in early September, a handful of Louisiana pastors gathered at a Baptist church on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain to …
By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Report
Passages: A Glimpse into the Hobby Lobby Family’s Bible Museum
On a humid afternoon in early July, I pulled into the parking lot of a nondescript warehouse just off Highway 65 in Springfield, Missouri. Flanked …
By Rachel McBride Lindsey
Review
Us v. Them: The Pitfalls of Righteous Rhetoric
Righteous Rhetoric: Sex, Speech, and the Politics of Concerned Women for America By Leslie Dorrough Smith Oxford University Press, 2014 On June 19 of this year, the …
By Emily Johnson