Latest articles by Elizabeth Stoker
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Paul Ryan now wants to solve poverty with 'love' and 'eye to eye' contact. Don't let him.
opinion There's nothing loving about cuts to food stamps
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Want to reduce horrible gun crimes? Reduce inequality.
opinion Yes, Elliot Rodger was privileged. But many perpetrators of gun crimes aren't.
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The real problem with Sarah Palin's 'baptism' remark
opinion A silly reference to "baptism" is one thing. Misappropriating Christianity for political gain is something else entirely.
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Why putting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death is wrong
opinion The reprehensibility of the alleged terrorist shouldn't cloud our judgment about human life
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Sean Hannity's culture of death
opinion The Fox News frontman celebrates another murder
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How Tennessee incentivizes abortions
opinion We need legislation that protects pregnancy and mothers, not just unborn infants
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Beware Twitter's civility police
opinion Civility is for tea parties, not the public square. Let's stay outraged.
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Christian conservatives have a terrifying new bogeyman: The Christian leftist
opinion And they're right to be scared...
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What the Middle Ages can tell us about the GOP's big charity myth
opinion Was there ever a time when charity could actually replace government welfare?
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Why corporate America should make the feds pony up for a minimum wage increase
opinion Here's a modest proposal for corporate America and its underpaid workers
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What Ann Coulter and atheist Richard Dawkins have in common
opinion Hating on the faithful has produced some strange bedfellows
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Mike Huckabee's head-scratching advice to Christian voters
opinion His reading of personal responsibility in Christian terms just makes no sense
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A theological case for the welfare state
opinion Replacing government programs with private charity isn't just bad policy, it's bad theology
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Why conservatives just don't get Pope Francis' anti-poverty crusade
opinion U.S. conservatives like to pair the cross and the coin, but that's not the case elsewhere around the world
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The Christian case for raising the minimum wage
opinion Christian politicians like Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan should get on board
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The Hobby Lobby case is all about power, not religious liberty
opinion This is another skirmish in the battle to define morality
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Why I'm a pro-life liberal
opinion A genuine pro-life position supports the lives of mothers and children rather than simply their births
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Does Christianity really prefer charity to government welfare?
opinion While often overlooked, there is a strong Christian case for their coexistence
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The big problem with New Jersey's 'rape by fraud' bill
opinion Courts would be tasked with uncovering someone's "real" identity. That's far more dangerous than it sounds.
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5 misconceptions about Catholics and abortion
opinion The church's position on sexual health is more nuanced than critics suggest
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Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham, and Christianity's misunderstood relationship with science
opinion Thanks to so-called literalists like Ham, much of the secular world thinks there are irreconcilable differences between Christianity and science. There aren't.
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To reduce poverty, let's stop literally poisoning the poor
opinion New research shows how industrial chemicals polluting our environment are also poisoning poor children
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Why I got married — without a wedding
opinion As a seasoned viewer of wedding reality TV, I wanted out
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How America lost interest in the common good
opinion The loss of an ideal is the private sector's gain
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