Inside InterVarsity’s Purge: Trauma and Termination at the Premier Evangelical Student Org
One of the nation’s largest campus ministries has demanded that its LGBT-affirming staff quit by November 11th.
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Why Build a Mormon Complex in Philly?
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in the midst of a massive…
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The New God-Fearers (FKA “The Nones”) and Where to Find Them
You can read about them in a steady stream of reports heralding the demise of 21st-century…
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What’s Wrong With Atheist Lent?
A few years ago, I gave up eggs and dairy for Lent. This wouldn’t have…
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The Fusion Friendships of Rev. Barber’s Third Reconstruction
I first heard Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II speak at a Moral Mondays rally…
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Is It the Job of Religion Journalists to Define “Religion”?
Weighing in on historian Damon Linker’s suggestion that the Times’ Mark Oppenheimer has just written himself out of a job.
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It doesn’t take more than a glance at the recent Reuters report to see that…
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What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience
Having spent most of the last two years in conversation with Nones, seekers, doubters, and…
Read MoreFrom the “God Beat” to the “None Beat”
What reporters get, and don’t get, about the latest Pew report on religious identity.
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How to Become an Atheist in Twelve Short Months
Ryan Bell no longer believes in God, exactly. Bell is the former Seventh-Day Adventist pastor who last January made…
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