Rand Paul’s Messianic Campaign Video Shouts “Yes I Can!”
The unique spectacle that is the presidential election season entered a whole new realm of fantasy last…
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Wanted: Your Vote
RD is nominated for a Webby for best Religion and Spirituality site!
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Herd Heroism in an Age of Rebels: The Cultural Roots of the Anti-Vaxxer Movement
Collect all the evidence that vaccines cause autism and endanger children, and you will have…
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An Evangelical (Millennial) on the Canterbury Trail
It was the sacraments that drew Rachel Held Evans—formerly an evangelical Christian—to the Episcopal Church, she says.
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Why Go to Church If You Don’t Believe Anymore?
A Good Friday post-mortem, as it were.
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Why The Ongoing RFRA Battle Is About Far More Than Wedding Cakes
Now that both Indiana and Arkansas have enacted their Religious Freedom Restorations Acts, with each…
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Jewish Studies Is a Free-Speech Zone, and It Needs to Stay That Way
Why I left Hillel.
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Jesus Went to Hell, But Nobody Wants to Talk About It
The day after Good Friday? Bad Saturday.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?
When I started reading Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: Why Islam Needs A Reformation Now, I kept…
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Meet the “New Age” Stephen Colbert
In the kitchen of his Charleston, S.C. home, wearing a flower in his hair, life coach and…
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