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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Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?
Imagine, for a moment, if, during the tense final hours of the recently concluded negotiations…
Read MoreHow Can You Exclude The NAACP and Liberal Protestants from Human Rights History?
No, we can’t simply thank anti-communist, anti-Enlightenment Catholics for the elevation of human rights language.
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How AIDS Changed the Way American Christians Talk About Sex
A Q&A with Anthony Petro on his new book, the first history of religion and the AIDS crisis in the U.S.
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Would We Have No Commitment to Equality Without Christianity?
Readers of my last post, and readers of English more generally, could be forgiven for…
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Sing the Glory of the Smoke: The Spiritual History of Jazz
A Q&A with Jason C. Bivins
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Evangelical “Sexual Purity” Is Not About Sex—It’s About Power
A Q&A with author Sara Moslener about “Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence”
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Could a Real Life Jurassic Park Help with Climate Change?
In the storerooms of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, in Connecticut, there’s a…
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The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism
What do the Mad Max franchise, protests of the Keystone pipeline, and the idolization of…
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