By George Kane In early February, the Star Tribune ran an AP article headlined “Millions in tax dollars flow to anti-abortion centers” detailing how, while Republican-controlled legislatures have done everything they could to make abortion unavailable, state funding of anti-abortion centers has spiked. The article revealed that these anti-abortion centers Read more
By Kristine Lund My mom, Kerry Lund, and her life partner, GeneKasmar, are no longer with us in their embodied forms. They spent their last years in Oklahoma City,having left Minnesota to escape the snow. They also left behind their activist life, focusing more on gardening and traveling. My mom’s Read more
By George Francis Kane Secular government is on the brink of oblivion in America. Every reader of this column surely knows that the separation of state and church is legally based in the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment, that “Congress shall make no law respecting the Read more
By George Kane Each year the President of the United States proclaims National Religious Freedom Day to commemorate the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. That statute, written by Thomas Jefferson and guided to passage in the Virginia General Assembly by James Madison, became Read more
A Crisis of Faith: How Religion Ruined Our Global Pandemic By Kamrin Duncan Outbreak was published last year by Noah Lugeons, and as the title suggests, provides an argument that religion was the reason behind the American catastrophe of Covid-19. Lugeons focuses not just on the current pandemic, but how Read more