To All Abortion Purists:
The ‘morning after’ Gosnell: Can we agree on some of the basics?
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On the 20th Anniversary of Waco
Why are people attracted to living charismatic leaders?
Read MoreWhen Bad Weeks Happen to Good People
Or maybe it’s not so simple.
Read MoreNeologism of the Week: ‘Tragicglee’
We saw it after Sandy Hook and Kermit Gosnell, and it’ll probably crop up in discussions of Boston.
Read MoreAtheist Islamophobia… Again
Dogmatism by any other name.
Read MoreNaked Jihad
A tale of two FEMENisms.
Read MoreThe ‘Common Sense’ Argument Against Marriage Equality
Marriage: a complementarity between genitals?
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In Defense of Clerical Celibacy, From a Protestant Liberal
Celibacy as “radical doubt.”
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Spiritual-Not-Religious or Just Lazy?
The folks most likely to be alienated by Daniel’s book are, unsurprisingly, the seekers—those who call themselves SBNR, of course, but also those who want religious community, or at least want to want it. For these folks, who may be, as she says, “shopping” for a place to belong, Daniel has absolutely no patience.
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Parent, Prophet, Con-Man, Spy: Who Was Rev. Moon?
A few years ago during a college break, when my floor was deserted and peaceful, a middle-aged couple stopped by my office door looking for someone who taught religion. “We’re from the Unification Church,” the man said. I gasped. The Moonies! was my immediate, rather graceless thought. With great excitement, and flashbacks to news reports of mass weddings dancing through my head, I composed myself and invited them in to chat. They seemed pleasantly surprised that I knew what the Unification Church was and, perhaps most of all, that I hadn’t shut the door in their faces.
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