Becky Garrison
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The Family: More Gilead than Godly
When tuning in to Netflix’s five part documentary series The Family—which provides an inside look into the high-powered Christian ministry known as The Fellowship... Read More
“Nones” Demonstrate Largest Support for Transgender People
Despite the Trump administration’s fight to restrict and rollback federal protections for trans communities, a new Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) survey finds Americans... Read More
Exploring How Faith Shapes the Artist
At the 2019 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in late March, five writers of fiction, poetry, and comedy came together for... Read More
Exploring the Historical Roots of Religious Freedom
STEVEN WALDMAN is a former journalist he was the national editor of US News & World Report, a national correspondent for Newsweek, and the... Read More
Lots of Love: Exploring Polyamory in Portland
FROM HBO’s popular polygamist drama Big Love to Showtime’s two-season reality show Polyamory: Married & Dating, tales of copulating outside of coupledom offer a... Read More
Abolishing Civil Rights at the National Prayer Breakfast
During this year’s National Prayer Breakfast held on February 7, 2019, President Trump proclaimed, “Since the founding of our nation, many of our greatest... Read More
The Darker Side of George H. W. Bush’s Kinder, Gentler Faith-Based Politics
During my graduation from Yale Divinity School in 1992, I decried those protesting President George H. W. Bush as he delivered Yale’s main commencement... Read More