Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette
The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether…
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A Nazi, a Jewish Prisoner, and a “Magic” Bible, Or, Christian Romance Fiction Gone Very, Very Wrong
Is there a prize for most offensive conversion narrative?
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Why SBC’s Russell Moore Wants Conservative Evangelicals to Be Nicer
In the 1970s, conservative evangelicals declared themselves defenders of the American way and protectors of…
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Why Science Needs “Neurodiversity,” Autism Included
New York Times science columnist George Johnson had the epistemological grumps last week, about what…
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“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace
In “Federer, Both Flesh and Not,” his essay about the 2006 Wimbledon Men’s final, David…
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Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later
In 1995, the first of the Left Behind series was published—a hugely successful franchise that…
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Are Muslims as Dangerous as Nazis, as ESPN’s Curt Schilling Tweeted?
Earlier this week, ESPN commentator and world religions expert Curt Schilling got suspended for a…
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Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?
After Ireland made history in May 2015 by becoming the first country to legalize same-sex…
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Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?
Imagine, for a moment, if, during the tense final hours of the recently concluded negotiations…
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The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans
The following essay contains some minor spoilers. – eds. Imagine a world where robots look,…
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