Rev. Barber: A “Moral Center,” Not a “Religious Left,” Will Save Us in 2017
Is the eve of Trump era the darkness of the tomb or the darkness of the womb?
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Jesus Has Left the Building: Celebrating the Next Reformation
Today we have the same fossilization of institutional religion, only this time it is us Protestants.
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Bipolar Faith, an Autobiography of Race and Mental Illness
A womanist theologian explores the underexamined intersection of faith, race and mental health.
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They’re Not Coming Back: The Religiously Unaffiliated and the Post-Religious Era
A new survey crushes whatever hope was left about luring Nones back into the fold.
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The Meaning of Make Believe (Why Religion Doesn’t Have to Be “Real”)
When I was in fifth or sixth grade my father bought me a King James…
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How to Wreck Your Faith: A Theologian Teaches “Outlaw Christianity”
Back in the mid-1990s, I excitedly announced to my mother—who had spent a good part…
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#WeStandWithIsaac: A Movement for LGBT Inclusion in the Mennonite Church
Late last month, when my pastor Isaac Villegas was getting his ministerial credentials suspended for…
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An Untold Tale: American Fiction vs. The Religious Right
What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise…
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Cafeteria Christianity in the Age of Social Media: What’s Old Is New Again
When people ask questions like “Why do we pick and choose our religious beliefs?” they…
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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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