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 “Southern Cage”: How the Myth of the Redemptive Depression Keeps Blacks at the Margins
An interview with Alison Collis Greene, author of No Depression in Heaven: the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Transformation of Religion in the Delta
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The Progress of Christ in Commercial America: A Review of Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult
At 400 pages, Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American…
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Sometimes Salvation Looks Like Rage: An Open Letter to “Non-denominational” Churches
I grew up in a self-professed non-denominational church. My mother began attending when I was…
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A Moral Movement Where Everyone Is in For the Long Haul
When I mention Moral Mondays to secular friends, few have heard of it. In faith-based…
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An Open Letter to Black Clergy on the Disdain for Protest
Advent is upon us as we await the coming of the world’s most famous Palestinian—Jesus…
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Out of Options: Christians’ Losing Battle Over Equality
In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative…
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The Blame for Ferguson: A Response
In a recent article for The Cubit’s series on blame, RD associate editor Andrew Aghapour…
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Our Failure To Understand Ferguson: A Cognitive Explanation
Can cognitive science help us to better blame public institutions?
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Christianity’s Greatest Counterfeit
Like it or not, the Republicans in Congress are now a kind of congregation, a reality of church, a particular church, but still a church. Inescapably, now they present a Christianity in total power.
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