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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Why Scientists Should Be Agnostic: Or, Why Lawrence Krauss Is Still a Windbag
A few months ago, one of us (okay, Andrew), referred to the esteemed physicist and…
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Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit
On the eve of the papal visit, William Penn’s City of brotherly love, Philadelphia, is…
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Can You Become Un-Autistic?
You could read this as a straightforward narrative of medical recovery. Or you could read…
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Back to School at The First Public School In the Country To Require a World Religions Course
Could a course prevent public schools from becoming battlefields?
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What Kim Davis Knows (Or Thinks She Knows) About Marriage, the State, and Sexuality
This morning a judge freed Kim Davis, the heretofore obscure Kentucky county clerk who has made national…
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