It Is About the Hijab: Wheaton College and the Narrowing Criteria for Evangelical Belonging
Larycia Hawkins, a tenured political science professor at the evangelical stalwart Wheaton College, was placed…
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What the Critics of the Mindfulness Trend Don’t Get
It’s not simply reinforcing western privilege or turning us into contented drones.
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How to Become an Atheist in Twelve Short Months
Ryan Bell no longer believes in God, exactly. Bell is the former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor who last January made…
Read MoreDear Public Employee: Think the Government is “Hostile to Religion”? Get Another Job.
Same-sex marriage is now legal in North Carolina. It was, of course, bound to be…
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Blame Muscular Christianity for Driscoll Fiasco
If you even nominally follow the world of evangelical Christianity, you already know that superstar…
Read MoreJesus Wasn’t a “GodKlingon”; The Problem with Biblical Literalists
This past weekend creationist Ken Ham, best known to most for his highly publicized debate…
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Bible College Pres Arrested for Forced Labor: Hypocrite or Extremist?
A belief or action is “extreme” not because of its putative disconnection from the mainstream; rather, it is “extreme” because of the way it pushes or takes the logic of a “mainstream” belief.
Read MoreWas Prof Wrong to Ask Students to Not Thank God?
Seemingly to prove the thesis of God’s Not Dead—i.e., that colleges and universities are bastions of…
Read MoreWhy Palin’s “Baptism by Waterboarding” is Sacrilegious
The erstwhile presidential candidate links torture to sacrament, gets a big round of applause.
Read MoreFrank Schaefer, Phil Robertson and the Myth of Christian Unity
Are “liberal Christians” and “conservative Christians” worshipping the same God?
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