How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”
Back in the mid-1990s, I excitedly announced to my mother—who had spent a good part…
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“What’s the Relationship of Technology to God?”: A Q&A with Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly
Total surveillance, an emergent sharing economy, pervasive networked AI—these are just a few of the…
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The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult
At 400 pages, Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American…
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An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right
What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise…
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Fascinating History of Search for “Lost White Tribe” Sheds Light on Construction of Race
Speaking broadly, white supremacist ideas rest on two premises. One is about power. The other…
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Is There Hope for a Truly Progressive Evangelicalism? An Interview with Deborah Jian Lee
Journalist Deborah Jian Lee is a few months into a book tour for Rescuing Jesus: How…
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There’s No Business Like the Bible Business: 200 Years of the ABS
“Institutions do not usually make for the most thrilling reading,” John Fea writes at the…
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Polygamy, Genius, and the Origin of Religion
Best-selling psychologist David P. Barash has religion all figured out: God the Father is simply the ultimate alpha male.
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Do Dogs Have a Soul?: Taking “Creaturely” Life Seriously
The hottest news in animal life right now is a story about “religious” chimpanzees. A…
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Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?
What more important natural resource could there be than the air we breathe every minute…
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