“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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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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