The New Age Fantasy of a Celtic Church that Revered Nature and the Divine Feminine Never Existed — So What?
From Fifth Avenue to Dorchester Heights, this St. Patrick’s Day will feature the traditional uilleann…
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New Research Suggests That Belief in Demons May Help Explain Christian Support of Trump
In a strange way, I envy the people who were raised as evangelical Christians in…
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Alabama’s IVF Ruling Reveals Deep Ties to This Increasingly Influential Christian Right Movement
In the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling that sent shockwaves through the country, the word…
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Taking Aim at Religion Itself, Apostles Prime Networks For Real-World Violence
It is more than paradoxical that an ostensibly Christian university leader would say, “We are…
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Latest Book on Evangelical ‘Extremism’ Reflects Pervasive Tendency to Beat Up on Judaism to Save Jesus
Perhaps you’re in the crowd that’s baffled by the behavior of American evangelicals. How could…
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Amid Anticipation of Government Disclosure, ‘We Are Not Alone’ Follows Those Who Claim Alien Contact Through Meditation
UFOs are in. The current wave of enthusiasm began in 2017 when major newspapers reported…
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Lost and Found: Despite the Hope, Morality, and Meaning Inspired by Deconversion, Why is Respect Only For Those Who Find God?
It’s a story that can inspire even the most cynical among us. A person endures…
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Despite Conflation of Israel with Judaism, Anti-Zionism is More Kosher Than You Think
Do Israel’s actions in Gaza—the bombing of hospitals, apartments, and entire towns; policies of forced…
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All That Glitters is Monotheism — Ignorance of Paganism Isn’t The Real Problem with David Wolpe’s ‘Atlantic’ Essay
In a recent essay for The Atlantic, David Wolpe, a rabbi and visiting scholar at…
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Pop-Culture Angels Are More Than Just Embarrassing Kitsch
Cloying sentimentality, saccharine pablum, ridiculous camp and embarrassing kitsch—in the contemporary moment the word “angel”…
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