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(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism
An interview with repentant ex-gay activist Alan Chambers on his new book and the downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism.
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The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown
A conversation with author Sikivu Hutchinson
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Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?
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“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution
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If You Liked The Martian You’ll Love These 3 Sci-Fi Shorts
Ridley Scott’s The Martian just had a massive $55 million opening weekend. Matt Damon stars…
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Workers Once Forced the Social Gospel Into Churches—Can It Happen Again?
Churchly opposition to the early labor movement is a relatively familiar tale, but a new book tells a different story.
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Where Polls and Surveys Fall Short: A Conversation with Robert Wuthnow on “Inventing American Religion”
It’s primary season in America, that special time when we come together as a nation…
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Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia
The Plaintiff Haroon Moghul. Called, by Robert Spencer, the “Alfred Rosenberg” of Islam; by Ayaan…
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Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?
After Ireland made history in May 2015 by becoming the first country to legalize same-sex…
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