Is ISIS A Sign of the End Times? It May Only Matter That They Believe So
To bolster a weakened Assad regime, Russia has spent the last few weeks sending military…
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God May Weep For Church Sexual Abuse, But Bishop Chaput Prefers to Bark
When Pope Francis met with five victims of sexual abuse this past weekend it made headlines,…
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Why We Should Stop Trying to Pigeonhole This Pope
Throughout Pope Francis’ historic U.S. visit, people talked about him in terms of a sharply polarized American politics….
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Deifying Pope Francis Obscures Where He’s So So Right, So So Wrong
We are compulsive god-makers. And this penchant was in florid display this past week as…
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The Question is: What Kind of Football Does God Fancy?
After leading his team to victory over the Seattle Seahawks last Sunday, Green Bay Packers quarterback…
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Serra’s Actions Aren’t the Only Reason to Lament His Canonization
The only good that I find in a St. Serra is that it could force us all to meditate on the ambivalence that haunts Christianity in this hemisphere.
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Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”?
Pope Francis may differ greatly in tone from Pope Benedict, but on many social issues…
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Protocols of the Elders of Mecca: Hints of Anti-Semitic Playbook in Glenn Beck’s Islamophobia
The Plaintiff Haroon Moghul. Called, by Robert Spencer, the “Alfred Rosenberg” of Islam; by Ayaan…
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The Second Coming of Black Jesus
In the first season of Adult Swim’s Black Jesus, the titular hero discovers that the tomatoes…
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How the Christian Right Can Save America from Donald Trump
A few days ago, I predicted that Donald Trump’s love affair with evangelicals will be…
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