Sexuality & Gender
Report
Empowered by Magic: The Christians and “Nones” Exploring Witchcraft
Maybe the complications, the syncretism that is so threatening to all kinds of orthodoxies—evangelicalism and otherwise—is the point for modern witches.
By Cameron Dezen Hammon
Essay
Dobbs and Fetal Personhood
The uncertain status of unborn life in Dobbs offers an opportunity to Americans who will now be forced to discuss the morality and law of abortion on the state level.
By M. Cathleen Kaveny
Essay
The Women Left Behind by the Pro-Life Movement
Could it be that in their quest to validate the personhood of an unborn child, the pro-life movement has diminished the personhood of a woman?
By Beth Allison Barr
Essay
Banning Nancy Pelosi from Communion May Have Backfired
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone banned Nancy Pelosi from receiving communion in his San Francisco diocese. But his real showdown is with Rome and the other bishops.
By David Gibson
Interview
Why Trump’s MAGA Resonates With White Christian Nationalism
Yale University sociologist Philip S. Gorski says that people “need to be prepared for what’s coming.”
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
Evangelical Women Revisit Feminism and Faith
The evangelical feminists I met were clear that their feminism evolved from their Christian faith.
By Katie Gaddini
Essay
Burka Enforcement and Burka Bans: Where Extremist Policies Meet
Enforcing and banning women’s choices about what they wear flow from the same root idea: paternalism towards women.
By Anna Piela
Review
Violence in Mormon Ways: A Review of “Under the Banner of Heaven”
It is worth exploring Krakauer’s and Black’s theory that it was Mormonism that killed Brenda and Erica.
By Taylor G. Petrey
Excerpt
Liberal Protestants and the Polarization of the U.S.
An excerpt from the new book, “Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States.”
By Gene Zubovich
Essay
The Constitutional Roots of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Public Faith
“My life,” she said, “has been blessed beyond measure, and I do know that one can only come this far by faith.”
By Justin Collings and Hal Boyd