The Surprising Catholic Roots of the War on Xmas
The love between Donald Trump and white evangelical Protestants remains strong according to a new…
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Is Religion Wrecking Our Air?
What more important natural resource could there be than the air we breathe every minute…
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Why It’s Heresy to Read the Bible Literally: An Interview with John Shelby Spong
Security sells. That’s why, says retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong, despite his best-selling controversial…
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Praise the Lard This Holiday Season
In the spirit of the annual evangelical Christian push to “Keep the Christ in Christmas,”…
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Who Says The “Partly Jewish” Are Bad For The Jews?
The author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family argues that children brought up with two religions aren’t necessarily less committed or confused.
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Thanksgivukkah, With a Side of Christmas Envy
Thanksgivukkah is a way of being out, loud, and proud—We’re here! We’re Jewish! We eat turkey AND latkes!—but can Jews ever compete with the juggernaut of Christmas?
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When Children’s Literature is Not Defined by “Innocence”
I wanted to think about how we mediate the past for children—and how we tell stories about children who lived in the past. Writing about religion, memory, and children’s literature became my way of doing that.
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Israel celebrates its second annual anti-immigrant rally.
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Why Taking Offense at Santorum’s “Tri-Faith” Nation is a Good Sign
There was a time when it seemed like progress for Catholics and Jews to be folded into Protestant America and frequently referred to as a single entity. For most, that time has passed.
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The Hypocrisy in Protests against Ultra-Orthodox in Israel
In light of recent events in the small Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, many in the modern Jewish world have argued the haredim (ultra-Orthodox) have crossed a line.
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