Are Evangelical Films Destined to Leave Secular Audiences Behind?
Five months before the big-budget Left Behind reboot hit theaters, evangelical movie producer Paul Lalonde…
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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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At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language
U.S. conservatives join forces with authoritarian regimes at the UN to resist LGBTQ rights
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Too Hot for Shul: Rabbis Seek Healthy Israel Dialogue After Gaza
During an American University panel on the recent war in Gaza earlier this month, Rabbi…
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Monstrous Futures: Dungeons & Dragons, Harbinger of the “None” Generation, Turns 40
This year, 2014, is the 40th anniversary of the game Dungeons & Dragons, the pen-and-paper…
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Is ISIS Islamic? Is it a State?
In his September 10th address, President Obama asserted that the Islamic State is neither Islamic nor…
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The Real (and More Interesting) World Behind Magic in the Moonlight
It struck me, when reading Brook Wilensky-Lanford’s review of Magic in the Moonlight—in which she notes…
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Let Us Now Praise Wealthy Men? Structural Poverty, Religiously (Re)Considered
Joerg Rieger, a leading theological thinker in relation to economic injustice, is also a principal presenter…
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What Does Proper Christian Womanhood Have to do with the Ray Rice Story?
In 1882, the state of Maryland adopted an “Act to inflict Corporal Punishment upon Persons…
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The Black and White (and Blood-Red) Roots of ISIS
The latest gruesome video released by ISIS showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, just…
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