Aasif Mandvi on Islamophobia, Acting, and the Long Shadow of Jon Stewart
People don’t like to hear this, but my character on the Daily Show is a character.
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Simple Questions: The Why, What, and How of Changing American Christianities
Dear friends and colleagues on the godbeat: You’ve heard it before: liberal churches are dying…
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Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What You Think It Means
If religious kitsch is a guilty pleasure, one of my favorite indulgences is a graphic…
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New Atheism Produces Another Curiously Uncurious Science v. Religion Book
It takes chutzpah to argue that most living humans navigate reality incorrectly. But this particular form of chutzpah has become familiar.
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Introducing a New Advice Column, “Ask the Dust”
Take our advice, we’re not using it.
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Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of American Christianit(ies)
The terrain is indeed shifting as the latest Pew survey results suggest, but it’s not…
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What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience
Having spent most of the last two years in conversation with Nones, seekers, doubters, and…
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Did the Duggars’ Fundamentalism Cause Sexual Abuse? Not So Fast
Now that the sexual abuse allegations against Josh Duggar have resurfaced and made the news,…
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U.S. Christianity is Dead, Long Live U.S. Christianity
In the cluster of comment on the recently released report on the changing American religious landscape from…
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Who Would the Buddha Bomb?
Last week, dozens of senior Buddhist teachers and leaders converged on Washington, D.C. for an…
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