Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse
Revelations abound. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires crowd the news, alongside genocide, terrorism, and rogue state…
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Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”
Author Max Perry Mueller answers RD’s 10 Questions
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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap
Reports from several international LGBT gatherings: The Interfaith Diversity Network of West Africa (IDNOWA), founded…
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Soft Supremacy: When “Liking” Love Is Not Enough
We learned last week that Trump the Enabler doesn’t need Steve Bannon at his side…
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Catholic Archbishop Takes On Jesuit Magazine’s Slam on “Ecumenism of Hate”; and More in Global LGBT Recap
Earlier this month, the Jesuit magazine La Civilta Cattolica published an article on the political…
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Vatican Fires Shot at US Religious Right, Calls Out “Religious Liberty” Industry and “Evangelical-Catholic Alliance”
An article being described as “explosive,” written by two allies of Pope Francis in a…
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The Clenched Fist of Truthiness: Why Religion Won’t Fix This
The NRA released a terrifying recruitment video the other day, unsettling even by their standards,…
Read MoreA Note to Megyn Kelly & NBC: How to Talk About Conspiracy Theories
It looks like Megyn Kelly’s interview with Alex Jones will go forward on NBC this…
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Another Far Right Theocrat Shows up on the Trump Team
Jay Sekulow has been making the rounds at right-wing media outlets (Fox, PJ Media, WND,…
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‘Don’t Call Me Black No More, I’m an Israelite’: Kendrick Lamar, Black Hebrew Religion, and Black Suffering
Kendrick Lamar’s fourth album, Damn, (stylized “DAMN”) has been number one on the Billboard charts for the…
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