An Art of Flesh and Blood: Remembering Disability Activist Rev. Rick Curry
Jesuit Reverend Rick Curry died in late December at age 72 after an extended illness….
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Solidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”
Three days ago, on December 28, Asra Nomani entered the 1000+ comment stream to her Washington…
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Feminist Critics of Wearing Hijab in Solidarity Fall Into Same Old Traps
Though Wheaton professor Larycia Hawkins was officially reprimanded for claiming that Muslims and Christian worship the same god,…
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Praise the Lard This Holiday Season
In the spirit of the annual evangelical Christian push to “Keep the Christ in Christmas,”…
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Christianity’s Concussion Crisis: Where Football and Faith Collide
A Nigerian-born Catholic has crashed the American wedding of faith and football by refusing to…
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Greatest Hits of 2015: Religion Stories Our Readers Couldn’t Resist
Running the gamut from religious fundamentalists to closet atheists, reality TV scandal to serious theological debate, here…
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Festivus, Atheist Santa, and the Invention of Blasphemy
A Q&A with S. Brent Plate
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What Did the Puritans Have Against Christmas?
Another Christmas, another string of outrages about the supposed “War on Christmas.” In November there…
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Despising the Holidays: When Christians Led the ‘War on Christmas’
In the 1640s, during the years of the English civil wars, a popular broadsheet with…
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Ten Religion Stories That Went (Mostly) Missing in 2015
Once again, RD’s editors have asked me to think about stories at the intersection of religion and…
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