Evan Derkacz

To almost nobody's surprise, 2016 ended with another confusing and un-American blow in the "religious freedom" vs. freedom freedom category. As Slate's tireless Mark Joseph Stern noted, a "bizarre ruling" by a US District Judge allows doctors to discriminate against patients whose medical decisions

In her acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actress, Patricia Arquette called for equal rights for women, specifically calling for wage equality... ...which, as many noted, had Meryl Streep and J-Lo (among many others) shouting vehement amens... ...yet one Twitter user noticed ye

In a powerful NPR segment (listen below) on whether the Black Church still matters, Michel Martin spoke with Reverend Raphael Warnock senior pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (Martin Luther King’s pulpit), who said: If you are a church that’s never in good trouble with the powers, th

Like so many others, I was struck by Darren Wilson’s use of the word “demon” to describe Michael Brown in his testimony to the grand jury. But it wasn’t just the officer’s description of Brown as a demon, which is dehumanizing enough, it’s the use of “it” in reference to Brown’s face (“it looks like

God smacks this world.

A tale of schlock and damnation.

Really? Are we having this discussion?

By “celebrating” liberal victories years after they’re even remotely controversial, the religious right rewrites itself into history’s good book while continuing to play to the worst elements in our contemporary culture.