“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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Pope’s Liberal Defenders are Missing the Point
In the wake of his September visit to the United States, a great deal was written…
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Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling
A review of Robert Wuthnow’s “Inventing American Religion: Polls, Surveys, and the Tenuous Quest for a Nation’s Faith.”
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Open Letter to Ben Carson From Fellow Seventh-day Adventist: Stop the Islamophobia
Dr. Ben Carson, As a clergy-trained fellow Seventh-day Adventist, I urge you to stop singling…
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“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution
We are human beings, and we build things.
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The Surprising Origins of (and Problem with) the Vatican’s View of Sex and Gender
Does God really work in such mysterious ways? Or, is it only the theologians who do?
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