Sexuality & Gender
Essay
The 20-Year Media Spectacle of Saving Afghan Women
The focus on the suffering of Afghan women deflects attention from the more difficult questions about what the U.S. actually set out to achieve in the longest war in our history.
By Tazeen M. Ali
Report
New Research Suggests Christians See LGBT Progress as Threatening
Do Christians suffer in a changing America?
By Clara L. Wilkins and Lerone A. Martin
Review
Netflix’s “Pray Away” Confronts the Lies of the Ex-Gay Movement
The new documentary follows former leaders of Exodus International, a now-defunct organization of ex-gay ministries.
By Lynne Gerber
Essay
The Religious Activism Behind U.S. Refugee Policy
Advocacy for (or against) particular refugee groups tends to follow sectarian and political allegiances.
By Lauren Turek
Report
The Changing Faces of American Rabbis
More diverse groups are joining the rabbinate across the United States.
By Nomi Kaltmann
Essay
U.S. Catholic Bishops Succumb to Partisan Politics in Eucharist Debate
All Catholics lose when church leaders become political, not moral, actors.
By John T. McGreevy
Essay
The Tragedy of Russell Moore
The former Southern Baptist official helped create the dynamics that led to his resignation.
By Brian Kaylor
Essay
The Atlanta Shootings, Evangelical America, and the Korean War
We have to understand the multiple historical roots of violence against Asian American women.
By Helen Jin Kim
Interview
Taking on the Christian Patriarchy: An Interview with Beth Allison Barr
The author refutes that the subjugation of women is biblical.
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
The Eugenics Roots of Evangelical Family Values
James Dobson and the harmful history of Christian marriage counseling
By Audrey Clare Farley