Tag: Faith and politics

For a while now, the opinion writer Joe Nocera at the NY Times has been compiling daily accounts of gun violence in the US, in

The Georgia state legislature passed the farthest-reaching gun-rights bill yet, this week, now allowing licensed gun owners to carry weapons virtually anywhere. Under the new

According to an article in the Washington Post, the justices on the current Supreme Court are the most vocal about their religious backgrounds as any

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) announced Wednesday night that she has vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed businesses to deny service to gays and lesbians if they felt it violated their religious rights.

Reaction continues to pour in to the anti-LGTBQ law passed this morning in Uganda.   Secretary of State John Kerry has denounced the law on

As the country continues to grapple with the fallout of the verdicts (and egregious lack thereof) in the Michael Dunn trial, Jim Wallis has voiced

We reported over the summer that Episcopal churches in North Carolina had joined in a protest movement around voting rights, education funding, and equal access

The Rev. Harry Knox implores religious leaders to finally begin speaking out for reproductive freedom. Writing at Religion Dispatches: