Pope Francis Opens Holy Doors; Trump Calls For Closed Borders
On the eve of Pope Francis’ opening the Holy Doors of St. Peter’s for the Extraordinary Jubilee…
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Don’t Call It “Prayer Shaming”: Our Moral Failure Exposed
On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, murdered 14…
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The Man Behind Ben Carson’s “Secular Progressive” Fixation
A few days ago, Ben Carson sat down for an interview with Christianity Today. Speaking with…
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In Praise of Failure: Is Defining Religion Such a Good Idea?
Recently, the New York Times’ religion writer appeared to throw up his hands in despair at…
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How Are the “Nones” Raising Their Children?
What inspired you to write Losing Our Religion: How Unaffiliated Parents Are Raising Their Children? It…
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Report from Paris During COP21: Let Us Not Commit Global Suicide
Day One If you are someone who thinks it is already too late to keep…
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Don’t Overlook Endless War in Rise of ISIS
Capital in the Twenty-First Century made Thomas Piketty that rarest kind of celebrity: the academic…
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Act, Pray, Tweet: What the H*ll To Do About Gun Violence?
We’re now averaging more than one mass shooting per day, The Washington Post reported last…
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Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence
Last night, as news of the shootings in San Bernardino was being digested, the Twitterverse…
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Is It the Job of Religion Journalists to Define “Religion”?
Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job.
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