Tag: Abortion
Gay rights dispute is pulling apart the United Methodist Church, after...
Scott T. Vehstedt, American University
The Methodist Church, the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the United States, is headed toward a divorce.
In early January, mediators...
When religious ideology drives abortion policy, poor women suffer the consequences
Gretchen E. Ely, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
In Northern Ireland, Catholics and Protestants are frequently segregated, with some neighborhoods divided...
Women have been the heart of the Christian right for decades
Emily Suzanne Johnson, Ball State University
Alabama’s new abortion restrictions were signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey. But more has been said recently about...
How being beautiful influences your attitudes toward sex
Robert Urbatsch, Iowa State University
People tend to feel strongly about matters of sexual morality, such as premarital sex or gay marriage.
Some sources of these...
Evangelical Christians are racially diverse – and hold diverse views on...
Janelle Wong, University of Maryland
The influence of white evangelicals on American politics is well known. More than 80 percent supported Donald Trump in the...
How the Catholic Church came to oppose birth control
Lisa McClain, Boise State University
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark “Humanae Vitae,” Pope Paul VI’s strict prohibition against artificial contraception, issued...
How Catholic women fought against Vatican’s prohibition on contraceptives
Mary J. Henold, Roanoke College
Fifty years ago a fierce debate erupted in the Catholic Church over the papal document “Humanae Vitae,” which reiterated...
How Christian media is shaping American politics
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University
For Americans growing up between the 1950s and the 1980s, religion was not a regular presence on television....
EXPLORING NATURE
How tarot readers are using AI – and what it says...
Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, University of Michigan, and Vana Goblot, Goldsmiths, University of London
