#WhoIsBurningBlackChurches: Is It Freedom Summer Again?
Black churches burning. Anonymous threats to black female pastors. All this in the few weeks since the shooting…
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You’re Worse When You’re Hiding The Cocaine: A Moral Psychologist on Character and Blame
This interview is the third installment of It’s Your Fault, a Cubit series about blame…
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The Sacred and the Dead: Ten Writers on the End of an American Adventure
Jerry Garcia said once that he didn’t care much for the Western God—but that didn’t…
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The Benedict Opt-Out: Why Christian Self-Isolation Won’t Work
In a much talked-about Op-Ed in Time last week in the wake of the Supreme Court’s…
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What the Conservative Christian “Fake-Trans Bathroom Creeper” Has To Do With Suburban Anxiety
In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor…
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Evangelical “Sexual Purity” Is Not About Sex—It’s About Power
A Q&A with author Sara Moslener about “Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence”
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Introducing ‘It’s Your Fault,’ a Series on Blame
Is Dylann Roof solely to blame for the murder of 9 people in the Emanuel AME church…
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“1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little-Known History of Palestine
In his 1967 book Israel: An Echo of Eternity, Abraham Joshua Heschel refers to “the jungle…
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Anti-Gay Evangelicalism is the Norm: A Less Rosy Take on the Evangelical “Tipping Point”
“I held my tongue as she told me, ‘Son, fear is the heart of love.’…
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Religious Right Reax to SCOTUS: “A Spiritual 9/11”
Reactions from conservatives (and those courting their votes) range from angry to apoplectic. With a strong dose of the ridiculous.
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