This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. In 2014, at an elegant gala inside the Supreme Court’s gilded Great Hall, a tuxedoed Justice ...

There have been two competing narratives about the rise of the Christian right in the United States. The first story is the one we conservative evangelicals told ourselves: Religious conservatism ...

In 2013, I rented my first apartment, wrote my first resume, and eventually started my first (minimum-wage) job. I was 25 years old, inexperienced, and completely uneducated in how to be an ...

My family has always been fairly laid back about religion—perhaps what I would call "casually Christian." Up until I was twelve years old, we went to church every Sunday but rarely discussed religion ...

An excerpt from Boise State Public Radio's podcast "Extremely American: Onward Christian Soldiers" about the movement to end American democracy and install a Christian theocracy. Christian nationalism ...

At the ceremony, I was given the name Dvesatya (pronounced Dvay-SUHT-yuh). My teacher, Shinkyu Brian Coté, explained: “In Sanskrit, dve is ‘two.’ Satya is ‘truth, reality, things as they are.’ ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) As an Evangelical Christian, I am amazed, amused and appalled by the fact that so many of my fellow believers seem not to understand the ignorance, irony and hypocrisy of their ...