This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.
Will they have gluten-free treats? Is white chocolate structurally racist? Are brown M&M’s offensive? Isn’t…
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New Film Chronicles Unlikely Friendship in Battle Over God and Guns
In the new documentary film The Armor of Light, gun control activist Lucia McBath goes…
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“Own Your Heresy”: The Argument Over Who Gets to Do Public Theology Takes a Sharp Turn
The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,”…
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The Untold Story of Religious Support for Gay Rights
Historian Heather White on the surprising role of Protestantism in the story of LGBT justice in the U.S.
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Thoreau’s Ferocious Critique of Philanthropy Does Not Make Him “Selfish”
After Kathryn Schulz’s eviscerating portrait of Thoreau in the New Yorker, the nineteenth-century nature boy…
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“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate
Presidential candidates currently fall into two camps. In the first, you have about 20 Republican…
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An Israeli and a Palestinian American Imam Exchange Letters on Disturbing Viral Video
On the 12th of October, amid growing violence in Israel/Palestine, stories and video began to…
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Let There Be Light: Handwritten Draft of King James Bible Reveals Secrets of Its Creation
The King James Bible may well be the greatest work of literature ever written by committee—and…
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God Hates Nags: Why in God’s Name is Westboro Protesting Kim Davis?
Members of the infamously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) arrived in Morehead, Kentucky today to…
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The Fragility of Our Reality: A Conversation with the Brain Behind PBS Miniseries on Neuroscience
When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of…
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