Holy Hipster Mark Driscoll Continues to Fall
Following the news that 21 ex-Mars Hill Church pastors asked lead pastor Mark Driscoll to…
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Pop Culture Yogi B. K. S. Iyengar Dead at 95
Yoga popularizer, entrepreneur, and guru B. K. S. Iyengar died on Wednesday in the Indian…
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James Foley Prayed, But He Was Not a Martyr
One of many of the unbecoming habits of career non-believers is the mockery of prayer….
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Calvary is Bleak, But Can it Kick?
Calvary posits that faith is mostly a fear of death, but in reality, like Gleeson’s performance, faith is a living, changing, malleable thing. His Father James helps us understand why people still need religion.
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If Bad-Ass Nuns Ruled the World
What inspired you to write If Nuns Ruled the World? Around 2009 I started spending a…
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The EPA and Evangelical (Anti)Environmentalism
“So-called ‘climate change crisis’ is about as real as unicorns and little green men from Mars,” says Alabama Republican Chip Beeker.
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Magic In the Daylight
Woody Allen’s new movie, Magic in the Moonlight, is loosely based on a story that’s…
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The Collapse of the American Jewish Center
The polarization of American Jews has increased with each large-scale eruption of fighting between Israel and Palestinians. With each escalation there has been a shift of pro-two-state solution activists to the left; at the same time, though, the right becomes strengthened and entrenched.
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It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts
Nothing is as conducive to global radical mobilization as an exclusive theological summons.
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Francis and the Nuns: An Interview with Mary Gordon
Novelist, essayist and biographer Mary Gordon takes on Pope Francis’ treatment of American nuns, and…
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