The Sanders Insurgency: A Return to the “Secular Sacred”?
What a significant part of the political class disparages as Bernie Sanders’ egomania may actually…
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A Plea to Jewish Leaders: Help Us Reject All Institutional Efforts to Convert Muslims and Other People of Faith
I’m currently trying to finish a book manuscript on the malevolent effects of what I…
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A year ago, the University of California at Berkeley announced that it had been awarded…
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Women Are Leaving Church, And the Reason Seems Clear
A new Pew Research Center analysis of General Social Survey data confirms a long-simmering trend…
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A Furious Sadness: Conversation with Christian Protester of Nazi-Saluting Trump Supporter
Every so often, a news story of the day opens up into something deeper, broader,…
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Delillo and Doctor Strange: Orientalist Fantasy is Alive and Well
“Open your mind. Change your reality.” These are the twin phrases that flash across the…
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Smelling the Sacred: Better (Lived) Religion Through Chemistry
An article published in the journal Scientific Reports this month provides evidence that Smell-O-Vision may…
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Captain America: Civil Religion (And Why Donald Trump Thinks He’s Batman)
As of this writing, Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War is 2016’s biggest movie worldwide. If pop…
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Do the Arguments Against Bathroom Equality Hold Water?
Let the backlash begin. The arguments against President Obama’s historic directive that public schools allow…
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No, the Democratic Party Is (Still) Not the Party of God
In a recent piece over at Slate, Ruth Graham argues that the current state of the Republican Party…
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