New stories about religiously motivated progressive activism challenge common understandings of the American political landscape. To many mainstream-media satur

While the links between conservative Christians and politics have been drawn strongly in recent years, coming to embody what many think of as religious activism

"In recent years, Americans have become frustrated with the troubled relationship between religion and politics: an exclusive claim on faith and values from the

A history of Catholic social thought Many Americans assume that the Catholic Church is inherently conservative, based on its stances on abortion, contraception,

"To many mainstream-media saturated Americans, the terms 'progressive' and 'religious' may not seem to go hand-in-hand. As religion is usually tied to conservat