Religion Dispatches
For the Shakers, God’s gender was always understood as dualistic, as containing both the masculine and the feminine, and leadership was often matriarchal.
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Turkey wants Fethullah Gulen extradited to face charges that he was involved in the failed coup attempt against the Turkish strong man, Recip Erdogan, several months ago.
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Readers are urged to quarrel with this list or make up their own list. The point is to keep hope alive.
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He’s had a weird year.
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The Internet functions as a sort of midway point between the personal and the public: you can be part of a community of fans, and yet you don’t have to bare the depths of your soul.
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How different might this election cycle have been had more voters been willing to be curious about, understand, accept, or even embrace a pluralist nation, rather than panic in the face of the other?
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With all the memes wishing a good riddance to 2016, and John Oliver’s epic send-off…
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A new book from married co-authors, Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt, explores the intricacies of mixed partnerships and blended heritages.
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Churchgoers have all kinds of reasons for choosing to worship where they do and that’s a zone of privacy that should generally be respected.
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There is little doubt as to why Orthodoxy seems appealing to a white nationalist movement.
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