Christian Charity Meets Its Match: If You Missed “The Overnighters,” Here’s Why You Should See It Now
Anyone who saw last year’s standout documentary, Jesse Moss’ The Overnighters, probably noted a brief, sober coda to…
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What We Don’t Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed
For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books…
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LDS Church Labels Same-Sex Spouses “Apostates,” Bars Children From Baptism
5 things the church can do if it cares about the children.
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The Problem with Pew’s Science & Religion Poll
Yes, there are bad questions.
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(Ex-)Ex-Gay Activist Alan Chambers On His Prop 8 Epiphany and the Downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism
An interview with repentant ex-gay activist Alan Chambers on his new book and the downfall of Christianity and Evangelicalism.
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Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?
Did a group of Christian Vikings from Sweden and Norway travel by river to Douglas…
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Why We Should Keep the Devil in Halloween
In early thirteenth-century Belgium a young woman named Christina (who would later have “Mirabilis” or “The…
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American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets
A handful of conservative groups are frothing at the mouth over the current season of American…
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This Halloween, Think of Islam as a Religion of Pieces. Reese’s Pieces.
Will they have gluten-free treats? Is white chocolate structurally racist? Are brown M&M’s offensive? Isn’t…
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“We Blew it” on Climate Change, But May Survive Anyway: An RD Discussion with the First Transhumanist Candidate
Presidential candidates currently fall into two camps. In the first, you have about 20 Republican…
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