Are All Religious Experiences Reducible to 16 Desires?
For quite some time now, there’s been an irritating trend in the social sciences. In every generation, someone new…
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Why “Family Values” Defined Conservative Christianity (and Why “Religious Liberty” Has Replaced it)
From about 1970 until about 2000, American politics was largely driven by concern about the…
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How Not To Defend Atheism
David Silverman, the president of American Atheists and author of the new atheist polemic Fighting God,…
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Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness
Note: last November, The Cubit asked religion scholar Alan Levinovitz to review Derek Lin’s new…
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Refusing Religion, Claiming the Future: A Roundtable Discussion on “The Nones Are Alright”
What does it mean that a quarter of all Americans “describe their religion as ‘nothing in…
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A Biblical Perspective That Recognizes Black Women
What inspired you to write An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation? I used some of…
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Beyond Tolerance: Helping Religions “Come Out”
A gay Muslim student whose family comes from Saudi Arabia worries that they will have…
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How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?
What inspired you to write Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children? It…
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To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey
“When we talk about Black Lives Matter, we’re talking about all black lives.”
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Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?
It is by now widely accepted that the second half of the 20th century witnessed…
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