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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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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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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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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The big policy question libertarians can't answer
opinion What to do about poor children?
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Why Rubio's plan to end poverty by promoting marriage is theologically bankrupt
opinion Matrimony has a lot going for it, but don't say it'll make you rich
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Sorry, Fox News: Pope Francis is 'competent' enough to talk about economics
opinion Judge Andrew Napolitano thinks the pope is out of his element. He's wrong.
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Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are boosting a profoundly anti-Christian movie — and no one cares
opinion The National Review once accused Atlas Shrugged of "aggressive atheism." So why are a bunch of conservative Christians appearing in the film version?
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