Sexuality & Gender
Interview
AIDS Activist Steve Pieters Revisits His Pivotal Interview with Tammy Faye Bakker
Pieters’ appearance on Bakker’s television show helped make her a gay icon.
By Emily Johnson
Report
How Pat Robertson Changed Television and American Politics
Examining the television host’s legacy as he retires from “The 700 Club”
By Miguel Petrosky
Essay
Justice for All: The Religious Legacy of “All in the Family”
On January 12th, 1971, American television changed forever. A new sitcom on CBS was set to premiere, and the industry was at a fever pitch. …
By L. Benjamin Rolsky
Review
New Documentary “Keep Sweet” Follows Mormon Fundamentalists
What happened to the community that imprisoned FLDS leader Warren Jeffs left behind?
By Benjamin E. Park
Review
The Christian Nationalism Behind the New “God’s Not Dead” Film
The film’s polemics make plain that the “we” in “We the People” really means White evangelical Christians.
By Jill Hicks-Keeton
Interview
The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics
Rebecca L. Davis talks about her new book, “Public Confessions.”
By Eric C. Miller
Essay
Abortion Through the Lens of Germany’s (Catholic) Compromise
How Germany removed the abortion debate from the realm of partisan electoral politics
By Mark W. Roche
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