In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election
A number of years back, I heard something that changed my whole perspective on the…
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Katy Perry’s Evangelical Hangover
Despite an American Idol judging gig, a baby girl with Orlando Bloom on the way,…
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New Book by Olivier Roy Argues that Aggressive Attempts to Christianize the West Actually Hasten Secularism
How completely de-Christianized and secularized has Western Europe become? Data from the EU tell a…
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What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis
Fundamentalist Christian support for President Trump is a commonly known, if poorly understood, political dynamic…
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The Broken Promise of Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘The Goop Lab’
It is perhaps unsurprisingly rare for anyone to talk about Goop, New Agers, and the…
Read MoreLGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ Enjoys Broad Support; There’s Just One Problem
Though an estimated 70% of the overall population supports nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, and a new survey shows that a majority of every religious group agrees, there remains at least one significant hurdle.
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Netflix’s Carlton Pearson Biopic, “Come Sunday,” Reveals Christianity’s Struggle for its Soul
What’s the message, Bishop? That question, asked by the church’s closeted gay music director, Reggie…
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The Forgotten Nones: The High Cost of Fleeing Fundamentalist Religion
According to a recent study, those who have a stable religious or secular identity generally report…
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Occultism and New Age Take Off in Iran: An Interview with Alireza Doostdar
RD: What inspired you to write The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny?…
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“Giving Godhead”: A Bloody Vision of Religion’s Deepest Influence
Dylan Krieger writes of the prophets who eat scrolls and insist the parchment tastes just like the honey of that many-mansioned heaven in the by-and-by sky.
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