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The Establishment Clause – or as Jefferson coined it, our nation’s “wall of separation” between religion and government – has long been the bedrock of our democracy. But it’s increasingly clear [...]

It seems that every time news breaks of another anti-democratic, anti-freedom crisis, we find the fingerprints of the Christian nationalist movement. From the prominence of the Religious Right in [...]

It feels like we are in crisis mode as we approach decision season in the Supreme Court. Reproductive rights, public school funding, students’ religious freedom rights, and more hang in the [...]

The fight to preserve religious freedom and reproductive access reached a dangerous turning point this week. A leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s [...]

Right wing media continues to trumpet the conspiracy theory that Joe Biden is not legitimately our president and that the election was stolen from Donald Trump. This is one of many [...]

The Rev. Jennifer Butler has been a leading voice for decades in the faith-inspired movement for justice. She’s spent her career mobilizing religious communities to address the AIDS [...]

The Anti Defamation League continues its invaluable work to expose and combat antisemitism with the recent release of its 2021 Antisemitism Audit. Alarmingly, the organization found that 2021 was [...]

The promise of the 21st century was supposed to be a new age of connectivity and innovation. Social media and other tools have given us unparalleled access to information and new ways to reach [...]

It was one of the iconic images following the 9/11 attacks: rescuers rushing the lifeless body of a Catholic priest from Ground Zero. Father Mychal Judge, a Franciscan friar and a chaplain for [...]

Members of the First United Church of Oak Park marked this season of reflection and contemplation in a unique way that called attention to racial inequities in the church and the broader [...]