Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?
The Church of Latter Day Saints is in the midst of a massive building campaign…
Pope’s Comments on “Ideological Colonization” of Gender Signal Rupture With Scientific Community
Late last month, two global authorities signaled their positions on gender, sex, and the rights of…
Ordination of Women: Keep it Irregular
The year before I was ordained, 1973, I spent every Tuesday night reading Beyond God…
The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips
Abortion debates. The right to die. Cloning. The edges of life are also ethical fault lines,…
What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains
An early scene in Frank Bures’s The Geography of Madness describes the author wandering through…
Will SB 1146 End LGBT Discrimination in California’s Religious Schools?
A new religious freedom battle has been brewing in California, but you probably haven’t heard of…
The “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins
An interview with Alison Collis Greene, author of No Depression in Heaven: the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap
Alturi profiles human rights activist Neela Ghoshal, senior researcher for the LGBT rights program at…
Remapping U.S. Christianities
Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?
The Church of Latter Day Saints is in the midst of a massive building campaign…
I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple
The moment I entered the Black Woman is God exhibit in San Francisco’s SOMArts gallery,…
Ordination of Women: Keep it Irregular
The year before I was ordained, 1973, I spent every Tuesday night reading Beyond God…
Trump’s Mormon Problem
Will Mormons vote for Donald Trump this November? With all the attention given to whether…
Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music
Those panicking over the rise of the Nones have been looking for the youth in the wrong places and asking them the wrong questions when they do find them. Christianity, and a very orthodox Christianity at that, is hiding in plain sight.
Historian: Evangelical Trump Fandom is No Deviation
Evangelicals have enjoyed a longstanding right to define the terms of “religious freedom” as it benefits their own cultural position