White People Dying Younger Because of…Moral Turpitude? Give Us a Break
The chattering classes are all agog to learn from two Princeton economists that white working-class America…
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The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll
Yes, there are bad questions.
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The Forgotten History of Black Calvinism and the Haunting of American Folk Music
Ten Questions on “Strangers Below: Primitive Baptists and American Culture”
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The People’s Temple, the Black Church, and the Tragic Legacy of Jonestown
A conversation with author Sikivu Hutchinson
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Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?
Did a group of Christian Vikings from Sweden and Norway travel by river to Douglas…
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“Who Is This God?”: The Controversial Sequel to the Jesus Seminar
Perhaps, like me, you’re the right age and religious sensibility to have worn a WWJD…
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Billy Graham Is Probably Not the Author of His Own “Final Chapter”
In a blog post that made waves in the Christian press last week, Billy Graham…
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Who Benefits From Standardized Universal Time? And Other Questions to Ask As You Set Your Clocks Back This Weekend
A review of Vanessa Ogle’s “Global Transformation of Time”
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Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween
In early thirteenth-century Belgium a young woman named Christina (who would later have “Mirabilis” or “The…
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American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets
A handful of conservative groups are frothing at the mouth over the current season of American…
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