Is It OK To Use a Cellphone in Church? Pew Surveys the New Etiquette
The Pew Research Center has pubished a new report on cellphone etiquette. If you’ve ever wondered whether…
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“Those Federer Moments”: Sports, Sex, and the Gender of Grace
In “Federer, Both Flesh and Not,” his essay about the 2006 Wimbledon Men’s final, David…
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Are Muslims as Dangerous as Nazis, as ESPN’s Curt Schilling Tweeted?
Earlier this week, ESPN commentator and world religions expert Curt Schilling got suspended for a…
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Op-Ed: Religious People Must Oppose Attacks on Planned Parenthood
Conservatives balk when we say they are waging a war on women. Yet, the way…
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Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?
After Ireland made history in May 2015 by becoming the first country to legalize same-sex…
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Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?
Imagine, for a moment, if, during the tense final hours of the recently concluded negotiations…
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The Problem with AMC’s Sci-Fi Hit Humans
The following essay contains some minor spoilers. – eds. Imagine a world where robots look,…
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SoulCycle Looks to Sell its Soul
Since its inception in 2006, SoulCycle has done two things really, really well. First of…
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Why it (Still) Makes Little Sense to Call ISIS Islamic
Last week, The New York Times’ Rukmini Callimachi published “A Theology of Rape,” a report as important…
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Toward a More Inclusive Islam
An item in this week’s LGBT Global Roundup about the struggle to recognize marginalized pro-LGBT voices in…
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