“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)
Traveling through India in the summer of 1998, I arrived with some friends at Varanasi’s…
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The Revolutionary Spirituality of ‘Hamilton’
Last month, the Broadway cast of Hamilton dazzled with a live Grammy performance, and last…
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“Little Sisters” Being Sold As Face of Contraception Case
As the Scalia-less Supreme Court gets ready to hear the latest challenge to the contraceptive…
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Trump’s Evangelical Support in the Gut, not the Theology
Pundits rely far too much on what we say and they miss the deeper picture.
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Election 2016: Postracial Blues, #BlackVotesMatter, Evangelicals for Trump, and “Who Are We Now?”
From Trump’s support among evangelicals to Bernie Sanders’ secular Judaism to Hillary’s “voice of God” ad…
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Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?
By profession, Sam Harris is a brawler. The New Atheist writer has ongoing feuds with…
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History Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope
From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to “Wilding,” myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.
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Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad
And it came to pass after the captivity of Israel and the desolation of Jerusalem…
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Aliens, Nanobots, & Microbes: The Science of Secular Apocalypse
A conversation with End Times scholar Phil Torres on killer aliens, killer nanobots,
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“Of Kings and Prophets” Producers—a Christian, a Muslim and a Jew—Refuse to Sanitize the Bible
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan stated: “Religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion…
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