Ebola and Us: The American Roots of Liberia’s Trauma
Does America have a moral obligation to a country that Christian perfectionism and ethnic cleansing helped to establish?
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Anger, Privilege, and Invisible Injustice: What Cain and Abel Have to Do With Ferguson
How much is our view of justice determined by how we ourselves have been treated?
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Religion or Insanity? Two Upcoming Murder Trials Will Ask the (Burning) Question
…but does it have to be one or the other?
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As a Muslim, I am Exhausted…
We need raunchier stories that reflect how complex our Muslim lives really are.
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His Own Received Him Not: Jimmy Carter, First Evangelical President
Randall Balmer on Jimmy Carter, the role of the president’s faith, and the real reason for the rise of the Religious Right.
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What 19th-Century Marriage Controversies Can Tell Us About The Fight Over Gay Marriage
The Supreme Court declined to hear five same-sex marriage cases on Monday, thus opening the…
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“No” to Gay Means “No” to AA: Why the “Sandbox” Argument is Misleading
In a story that hasn’t yet been widely picked up in the national media, a…
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What’s Wrong With the Virgin Mary Depicted as a Barbie Doll?
Catholic and Hindu leaders—two religions that normally appreciate religious statues and images—have decried “Barbie: The Plastic…
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Eight General Seminary Professors “Resign” Without Their Knowledge
Things have gone off the rails at NYC’s General Theological Seminary in a spectacular way.
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Christians and Cage Fighting, From “Fight Church” to Mark Driscoll
The pastors who promote MMA describe it as a sport through which to recapture man’s “God given attributes” of “aggressiveness” and “competitiveness.” I couldn’t help but think of Mark Driscoll.
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