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August 2015

August 09, 2015

Keep Teenagers Weird

Last summer, Jan Hoffman wrote a piece for The New York Times on the disparity...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

A Culture War Worth Finishing

The phrase "culture war" is a little bit like the word "abortion." Both terms exist...

June 23, 2015

In Defense of the “Billy Graham Rule”

One of the highest privileges of being a pastor's kid is seeing, over the course...

April 2015

April 09, 2015

What’s a Conscience Worth?

Consider this a brief, concluding postscript to my 4-article (!) conversation about religious freedom and the RFRA....

February 2015

February 03, 2015

Measles and Mainline Protestants

Vaccination skepticism is--regardless of one's judgment about inoculation--an elemental rejection of expertise and authority structures. Hostility...