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CHURCH & STATE | Book Banners and the Growing War on the Freedom to Think

by Rob Boston • 29 March 2022

Books are in trouble in the United States. Books are being removed from public school curricula. Books are being banned. Books are being burned. The recent wave of censorship in America is accompanied by a... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | The Supreme Court Is Trashing Our Rights. What Are We Going to Do?

by Rob Boston • 13 January 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court, once seen as the last bastion of protection for our rights, is instead laying waste to them. Stacked with ultra-conservatives, the high court seems especially intent on trashing seventy-plus years of... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | To Defeat COVID, We First Must Overcome The Dangerous Lies Of Christian Nationalism

by Rob Boston • 12 October 2021

I hope you had a chance to listen to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci’s remarks during the recent American Humanist Association virtual conference or read them in this issue. Listening to Fauci’s words, I felt pride... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | Once They’ve Overturned Roe v. Wade, What Will Christian Nationalists Try Next?

by Rob Boston • 29 June 2021

One year from now, you might be holding the Summer 2022 issue of the Humanist and reading very bad news: Abortion is illegal in dozens of U.S. states. Unthinkable? Not at all. The US Supreme... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | The Secret Is Out: Christian Nationalists Hate Democracy

by Rob Boston • 23 March 2021

Way back in 1988, I wrote a story about Christian Reconstructionists, a hard­line faction of the religious right whose members openly espouse theocracy. The version of Christianity Reconstructionists sought to merge with the government would... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | The Church-State Wall Is Battered after Four Years of Trump. Let the Repair Work Begin.

by Rob Boston • 19 January 2021

Despite Donald Trump’s attempts to orchestrate a coup, Joe Biden is the new president of the United States. It’s disturbing, however, that Trump was able to generate so much chaos on his way out the... Read More

CHURCH & STATE | Of Socks and Separation: Engagement Is Key to Rebuilding the Wall

by Rob Boston • 27 October 2020

There’s a lot I don’t know as I write this column in early October: Who will be elected president? Will the results be challenged in the courts? Will Amy Coney Barrett be seated on the... Read More

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