The idea that a few unsophisticated Facebook ads created by Russian trolls swung a U.S. presidential election is ridiculous.
Now that fundamentalists have their man in the White House, they are running another assault on democracy that would make the late televangelist Jerry Falwell proud.
In his Epiphany remarks, the pontiff advises people to resist “inclinations toward arrogance, the thirst for power and for riches.”
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The tale of Jesus’ birth is not for oppressors. It is for the oppressed. And what is quaint and picturesque to those who live in privilege is visceral and empowering to those the world condemns.
In today’s U.S., Dreamers are undocumented young people who were brought here as children—much as Christ's parents took him to Galilee. Should he have been deported?
A disturbing inside look at conservative evangelicals by Terry Heaton, a former right-hand man to Pat Robertson (pictured).
Demonstrators are using protests to raise awareness of the expansion of drone bases across America.
Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which it is often entangled with Christian nationalism, it is worthwhile remembering exactly whose birth was commemorated Sunday .
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