How Prince Set Fire to My Catholic Girlhood
Prince is dead. Long live Prince. The morning after Prince’s death was announced, I woke…
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‘I Don’t Buy It’: The Gospel According to Frank Underwood
With bonus: 12 Quotes from the Underwood Bible
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God is a Terrifying Monster, and Other Takeaways from the Study of Vampires in Pop Culture
A Q&A with Jess Peacock, author of Such a Dark Thing.
Read More‘Good Wife’ Alicia Florrick is an Atheist (and Drinks a Lot)
I wasn’t sure how far “The Good Wife”‘s Alicia Florrick had made it into cultural consciousness, but now…
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Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson
How much is our view of justice determined by how we ourselves have been treated?
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God and the Gay Christian: An Interview with Matthew Vines
Moving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion
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Religion without God: “Cults,” Pious Atheists, and Our Own Human Bodies
Tired old Protestant-inflected definitions of “religion” are losing hold in diverse Western nations. And it’s about time.
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What Does it Mean to Call “God” a White Racist?
American Christians must take on the difficult work of understanding how whiteness has been woven like a cancer into their Christianity.
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Christians Should Give Up “Christianity”: An Interview with Peter Rollins
“That’s the good news of Christianity for me. It’s not that you can be happy and whole, but rather that life is crap and you don’t know the answers. It’s good news to be freed from the oppression that there’s something that’s going to make it all better.”
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Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs”
“As soon as you say ‘non-theists,’ it’s a negative thing. We should call ourselves ‘people believers.’ We believe in the common sense and the good will of people.”
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