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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A Portrait of Islamophobia?
On December 5th the New York Times published an editorial on its front page for the…
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Trump, Islamophobia, and the Philly Pig’s Head Incident
Shortly after November’s horrific terrorist attacks in Paris, Al-Aqsa mosque in Philadelphia received a phone…
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Debunking the Myth That Democracy Is “Incompatible” With Islam
An excerpt from Asma Afsaruddin’s new book, “Contemporary Issues in Islam.”
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