Civil Liberties
Essay
Orlando: A Lament
Like most people on the East Coast, I got the first news in the blur of waking on Sunday morning. I checked my email for …
By Mark D. Jordan
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
Interview
When Being Pro-Life Did Not Mean Being Conservative
For those who have come of age in the so-called millennial generation, the alliance between conservative Republicanism and “pro-life” activism is accepted without question. Indeed, …
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
At BYU, a New Confrontation in the Campus Sexual Assault Debates
The process for adjudicating sexual assault cases on college campuses has sparked widespread debate across the country. A new dimension of those conversations, involving a …
By Kristine Haglund
Essay
Remembering Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016): Priest, Poet, and Pacifist
Daniel Berrigan, the radical priest who helped to redefine what it means to be a Roman Catholic in post-Vatican II America, died on April 30 …
By Shawn F. Peters
Essay
North Carolina’s HB2 and the Shifting Battle over LGBT Rights
In March, in a special session that cost taxpayers $42,000, the North Carolina legislature met and passed, after just nine hours of deliberations that included …
By Kent L. Brintnall
Essay
The EU-Turkey Agreement on Refugees: Echo of a Tragic Past
The European Union started deporting hundreds of refugees in early April. As of March 20, the EU will return to Turkey all new refugees who …
By Greg Goalwin
Essay
The Paradoxes of Ted Cruz
By almost any reckoning, Ted Cruz’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination presents voters with a paradox—several paradoxes, actually. The senator from Texas styles himself …
By Randall Balmer
Essay
America’s Divisions and Scalia’s Christian Visions
As efforts are made to assess the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month, pundits have avoided discussing the one decision that stands …
By Nomi Stolzenberg
Essay
The 2016 Presidential Campaign: The Past and Present of American Tolerance and Intolerance
American presidential politics are in the midst of a strikingly ecumenical, if not interfaith, moment. Both parties are fielding primary candidates with widely divergent spiritual …
By Charles Postel