Distant Churches and the Isolated Poor: Lessons from Katrina, Ten Years Later
In 1995, the first of the Left Behind series was published—a hugely successful franchise that…
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HitchBot Meets His Maker: What a Robot’s Murder Tells Us About Ourselves
A friendly robot Is murdered in the City of Brotherly Love.
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What’s in a Name? Religious Nones and the American Religious Landscape
Over the last several years the term religious “Nones” has become a major topic of…
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In the evangelical world in which I was born and raised, Elisabeth Elliot (who died…
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The ‘Charlie Charlie Challenge’ and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters
In May, four girls at a Colombian high school experienced a supernatural encounter so profound…
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Churches Can No Longer Hide the Truth: Daniel Dennett on the New Transparency
The famous New Atheist waxes optimistic on the future of religion.
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The Promise of Immortality in a Tech-Enhanced Heaven
Talking transhumanism with R.U. Sirius and Jay Cornell.
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The Theological Terrors of Easter
Unnatural darkness? Bodies raised from their graves? Blood and death? Scripture as usual.
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A Church With a Hole In Its Heart: An Excerpt from Peter Manseau’s “One Nation Under Gods”
In the dry red soil of Chimayo, New Mexico, there is a hole in the…
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As Long As There’s Fear, We Aren’t Ready for Atheism: A Conversation with Theologian and Ex-Priest Daniel Maguire
Professor Daniel C. Maguire’s latest book, Christianity Without God: Moving beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving…
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