With the flames still smoldering after Indiana’s bruising fight over the limits of “religious liberty,” the Catholic bishops are calling for calm, temperate discussion—in the culture war fight they…
What inspired you to write Selling Yoga? Near the beginning of my graduate school career, I had the opportunity to travel to Rajasthan to research Jain traditions and came upon the Jain Shvetambara…
Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times Upshot blog dismantles the myth of the 50% divorce rate (emphasis mine): It is no longer true that the divorce rate is rising, or that half of all marriages…
Last week’s Southern Baptist Convention conference on “ The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage” presented a somewhat untidy hodgepodge of mixed messages as it vacillated between its…
David Gushee is thinking a lot about history. About social change, about civil rights movements, about religion, about power, about the Bible, about oppression, and about love. He has been thinking a…
In an August 4 press release, Al Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, issued a call for evangelical Christians to become more assertive in Kentucky’s 2014 U.S…
In recent comments after visiting Central American refugees in Texas, the Southern Baptists’ emerging point man in the culture wars, Russell Moore, cleverly managed to capitalize on the polarizing…