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December 2018

December 27, 2018

The Dream of Peoples Temple Before the Tragedy at Jonestown

In 40 years since the collective murder-suicide at Jonestown, most stories and scholarship have focused...

December 22, 2018

Can your heart grow three sizes? A doctor reads ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’

Who was “Dr.” Seuss, how did he come to be writing and illustrating children’s books,...

December 21, 2018

The Humble Origins of ‘Silent Night’

One of the world’s most famous Christmas carols, “Silent Night,” celebrates its 200th anniversary this...

December 19, 2018

The Power of Modern Media – Combating Bigotry in the Millennial Age

With social media and networking sites, media has evolved into something that everyone can be...

December 18, 2018

What Winter Solstice Rituals Tell Us About Indigenous People

On the day of winter solstice, many Native American communities will hold religious ceremonies or...

December 18, 2018

Is It Unethical to Give Your Cat Catnip?

As the Christmas season gets underway, companion animals are on the gift list. Many of...

December 14, 2018

This Christmas Tell Your Children the Real Santa Claus Story

St. Nicholas and Santa Claus are historically the same man. But unlike the jolly figure...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

Armageddon Tired of Climate Change Denial: #ClimateReport

Climate change deniers are going to hell — a hell on earth of their own...

October 2018

October 23, 2018

The Crucial Visibility of Transgender People: A Theology

Today in the United States there are those foolish enough to think they can "erase"...

September 2018

September 18, 2018

The Moral Imperative of #BelievetheWomen

The #MeToo movement has revealed how widespread are the suppressive mechanisms that cause women to...

September 05, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh: A Political Ideologue Not a Judge

Brett Kavanaugh just claimed, in the Judiciary Committee hearings on his nomination to be a...

July 2018

July 05, 2018

Feel Awful? How to Identify Trump’s Politics of Abuse and Subvert It

The United States doesn’t have a president any more, we have an “Abuser-in-Chief.” The policies...

June 2018

June 28, 2018

#NoMuslimBan

Religious liberty is rightly called “the first freedom” and it has defined us as a...

June 26, 2018

Do Not Tolerate the Intolerable: Public Shaming Can Be a Justice Action

Jesus of Nazareth publicly shamed those leaders he saw were committing injustice in his time,...

June 15, 2018

For Father’s Day, Let’s Discuss How Men Can Help Women be Less Vulnerable

By Dan Haseltine There are few areas of life where a man should feel as...

June 09, 2018

Could This Woman Bring Down The Southern Baptist Convention?

There is an image the Southern Baptist Convention cannot afford to have taken at their...

May 2018

May 23, 2018

The Met’s Catholic “Fashion” and the Muslim Imagination

This month’s Met Gala broke the internet, as intended. This time with celestial, papal, regal...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

The Idea of God Beyond Religion

Spirituality beyond religion is not an empty position for those preoccupied with believing niceties; it's...

November 2017

November 09, 2017

How We Use Faith in the Face of Fear

What can we possibly do in the face of evil? Why does God allow bad...

October 2017

October 26, 2017

Secondary Separation, in Islam

In fundamentalist Christian circles there is an approach to the world known as ‘secondary separation’....

October 06, 2017

Kneeling in Silence: Colin Kaepernick and the Religious Rejoinder to Trump

From the moment that Colin Kaepernick sat down for the national anthem before the first...

August 2017

August 23, 2017

Binding Up This Nation’s Wounds

Earlier this year, a reporter asked the great General James Mattis what threats worried him...

August 17, 2017

The Rise of Virtue Signaling: The New Put-down Hijacking Public Discourse

By viewing the proliferation of expression of righteous indignation as gratuitous or showy, we risk...

August 16, 2017

White Privilege: A Latter-day Saint’s Perspective

“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required.” (Luke 12:48) You...

August 16, 2017

The Invisible Classroom: Seeing Religion’s Importance to 21st Century Humanities Pedagogy

How do we implement the study of religion back into the humanities’ classroom? What steps...

June 2017

June 15, 2017

Moving Zionism Forward: A Conversation with the President of the American Zionist Movement

In a New York City bookstore in Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, far-left, self-described “radicals” gather to discuss “Freedom-Fighting Under...

June 15, 2017

It’s Time to Stand Up and Be the Church in the Refugee Crisis

It really boils down to this: It’s the government’s job to screen refugees, and the...

June 09, 2017

A Spectrum of Faith: Religions of the World in America’s Heartland

On a cold and windy night in November 2014, a forty-foot statue of the Vietnamese...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

The Bible and Science Fiction: A Match Made in Heaven?

To be sure, religions, spirituality, and sacred texts play a significant role in science fiction:...

May 09, 2017

Persecutor, Not Protector: Assad Is Not Christians’ Savior

A year after forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began shooting pro-democracy demonstrators, sparking the...