What Can a Real Life Haunting Tell Us About American Religion? [Updated]
While researching ghost hunters in the 21st century US during the course of earning my…
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The Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic has become a perfectly likely hero in the international…
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Can public school employees use their position of authority to impose religious rituals on other…
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The Uses and Abuses of the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In January 1994, a week after the King holiday, I walked into the lobby of…
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Is Proselytizing Ever Okay? Are We All Proselytizing All The Time?
Excuse me, reader, but would you have a moment to talk about the obnoxious practice…
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Scolding Those Who Choose Pets But No Children Pope Misses the Rainforest for the Trees
Is not having children—and further, living with cats and dogs—selfish? This is precisely what Pope…
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Turn On The News: This Isn’t a Split, It’s a Tiny Sliver of Conservatives Walking Out the Door — Introducing A New Media Criticism Column
It’s hard to imagine a news article less challenging to the cultural hegemony of conservative…
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As US Reaches a 1940s Fork in the Road — Which Path Will We Choose?
Readers of the Editorial Board are familiar with my obsession with political time—or how one…
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If We Don’t Counter Far-Right Christianity, 1/6 Will Just Be the Beginning
For years, far-right faith groups have become increasingly intertwined with extreme conservative political beliefs like…
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One Year After 1/6, Media Still Refuse to Recognize Authoritarian Christianity
One of those unspoken social rules I’ve never been very good at observing is that…
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