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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Beyond Tolerance: Helping Religions “Come Out”
A gay Muslim student whose family comes from Saudi Arabia worries that they will have…
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Festivus, Atheist Santa, and the Invention of Blasphemy
A Q&A with S. Brent Plate
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How “White Christianity” Beat Academic Freedom at Wheaton
As a fellow—make that sister—tenured black woman, I feel a particular kinship with Dr. Larycia…
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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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Wheaton and the “Same God” Controversy: A Theological Opportunity Squandered?
When Dr. Larycia Hawkins, a professor of political science at Wheaton College, donned a hijab…
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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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Thanks But No Thanks: How a Noted Theologian’s Defense of Larycia Hawkins Goes Bizarrely Astray
Miroslav Volf’s recent WaPo op-ed is an example of the kind of interfaith intervention we’d be better off without.
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False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix
Trump, long up in the polls, stays up; Cruz is rising. What do they have…
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