Christianity

Fighting back against the homophobic religious right’s hateful misuse of sacred literature

June 6, 2023 By Francis Erdman

There is a pattern in the religious right to use—and to misuse—religious texts and traditions to support their revanchist, fascist agenda.

‘Jesus: A Life in Class Conflict’—book bridges divide between Marxists and Christians

April 4, 2023 By Paul Simon

BOOK REVIEW: Marxists and people of faith continue to treat each other’s core texts with contempt or suspicion, making this book a daring (and sketchy) study.

Leader of the ‘woke’ mob?

March 28, 2023 By Greg Kearney

The latest from award-winning People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.

Class struggle in first-century Galilee produced the ‘Jesus movement’

March 27, 2023 By James Crossley And Robert J. Myles

The Jesus movement was part of a pattern of millenarian groups reacting to the inequality around them in first-century Galilee, write the authors of a new study.

Religious freedom or Christian hegemony? A left Jewish perspective on abortion

July 14, 2022 By Emily Thorpe And Noah Sigel

Religious freedom and any similar focus on the religious aspect of the struggle for abortion rights is a battleground set by the reactionary Christian right.