Come Hell or High Water: How the Melodrama of Disaster Leaves Us Vulnerable
Disaster has a clarifying glamour. It promises to highlight virtue and reveal iniquity. Therein lies the problem.
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Holding Out for a Hero: New ID Book Aims to Save You From Despair of Evolution
What is remarkable is not even how many times Axe repeats the same argument, but how many times this same argument has been repeated by intelligent design (ID) proponents before him.
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The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)
When I was in fifth or sixth grade my father bought me a King James…
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Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the midst of a massive…
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Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap
The Rio Olympics, described by Associated Press as “decidedly gay-friendly,” feature a record number of…
Read MorePope’s Comments on “Ideological Colonization” of Gender Signal Rupture With Scientific Community
Late last month, two global authorities signaled their positions on gender, sex, and the rights of…
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Ordination of Women: Keep it Irregular
The year before I was ordained, 1973, I spent every Tuesday night reading Beyond God…
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The Case for Treating Near-Death Experiences Like Acid Trips
Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.
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Jesus Christ and Super Stars: How The Holy Rolled Mainstream in Pop Music
Those panicking over the rise of the Nones have been looking for the youth in the wrong places and asking them the wrong questions when they do find them. Christianity, and a very orthodox Christianity at that, is hiding in plain sight.
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What Penis Theft Tells Us About Belief, Culture, and Our Brains
An early scene in Frank Bures’s The Geography of Madness describes the author wandering through…
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