I’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American Catholicism?
As the choir rehearses before St. Monica’s Sunday evening Mass, two blond women in skinny…
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Why Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard Dawkins, Islamophobia, and Politics
Like marijuana, affect theory seems to pop at parties.
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What Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?
“I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is,” Assata Shakur writes, “since I…
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Should Barbie Get Her Feet Washed at Church?
Did it strike anyone else as odd that the Vatican announced that women could have…
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It Depends What You Mean By “Religious”: Latest Poll Says More About Us Than Candidates
A new poll from the Pew Research Center tells us, predictably enough, that Americans generally…
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The Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin
Last week, the evangelical-influenced Barna Group released findings from its new study, “The Porn Phenomenon,”…
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Special Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?
On a fall day in 1998 I sat opposite the kindly guidance counselor at my Midwestern Christian high…
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Useless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness
Note: last November, The Cubit asked religion scholar Alan Levinovitz to review Derek Lin’s new…
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David Bowie’s “Heroes,” the Soundtrack of a Spiritual Libertine
“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist.”
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The order by Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore that judges stop issuing marriage licenses…
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