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June 2016

June 17, 2016

Stop Praying for us, and Acknowledge That You Helped Create Omar Mateen

Let me give you a run down: 2015 was the deadliest year on record for...

May 2016

May 26, 2016

Andrew Sullivan on God, Doubt, and Organized Religion

Blogging pioneer Andrew Sullivan formally retired from the daily content grind last year when he...

November 2015

November 17, 2015

Bill Maher is Like an Awkward Parody of Atheist Beliefs

Famous atheist and washed up 1950s stand-up comic impersonator Bill Maher went on The Late...

November 06, 2015

How I choose to see the revisions

I write this as a heterosexual person, one who is not directly affected by the...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Stephen Colbert is right, believing in God is pretty crazy

I had the pleasure of catching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. It...

September 18, 2015

Thomas, Meet Francis: The Glory of the Outsider-Leader

I remember the day he was elected, feeling amazed that a non-European was finally going...

July 2015

July 17, 2015

Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue (Part 3 of 3)

This is part 3 of a 3-part discussion with Alex Griffin and Eve Tushnet. In...

July 16, 2015

Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue (Part 2 of 3)

This is part 2 of a 3-part discussion with Alex Griffin and Eve Tushnet. In...

July 13, 2015

Religious and Gay: A Catholic-Mormon Dialogue (Part 1 of 3)

Sometime at church in the past two weeks, local Mormons leaders across the country read...

February 2015

February 02, 2015

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Why an 80-year-old children's book feels newer and more grown-up than the high-tech PG-13 epics recently...

December 2014

December 08, 2014

I Even Remain Alone?: Reflections on Eve Tushnet’s “Gay and Catholic”

About two years ago Ralph Hancock, a BYU professor of political philosophy, met with the...

November 2013

November 19, 2013

Why Do Americans Love Pope Francis?

The other day, I was talking to my students about how the press has been...

November 04, 2013

In Praise of Cafeteria Mormonism

It was both troubling and fascinating (something like watching a car wreck) to witness the...

September 2013

September 02, 2013

There Will Be Blood

On Saturday President Obama took to the podium in the Rose Garden and announced that...

July 2013

July 16, 2013

Dan Brown’s “Inferno”: An Eternal Return

I just finished reading Inferno, Dan Brown’s latest book. I’m no expert on Brown, though...

February 2013

February 25, 2013

Benediction

However improbably, on Thursday Pope Benedict XVI will retire. Much has been said and will...