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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To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey
“When we talk about Black Lives Matter, we’re talking about all black lives.”
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“Love Them As Yourself”: God’s Words or IKEA Instructions?
Since the Paris attacks, the right’s response to refugees crisis has been martial: we’re at…
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Hating Liberally: Why We ❤️ Zombies
Zombies are the perfect villains for our multiethnic, multireligious, multicultural, interconnected age.
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Will “Religious Freedom” Be the Issue That Finally Unites the Religious Right?
It is by now widely accepted that the second half of the 20th century witnessed…
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Can Faith-Based Organizing for Gun Control Work?
A thought experiment: What would religious gun control activism look like if it mimicked the…
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Religious Kids Are More Selfish: The Stickers Don’t Lie
Are kids from more religious families more or less altruistic than their peers from less-religious families?…
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America, the Mythical: “Mother of Exiles” or Denier of Safe Haven?
In a quiet part of the London borough of Southwark, on a street running parallel to…
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