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May 1 st 1628 was the second time that Thomas Morton had erected a Maypole at his colony in Merrymount; but it was to be the decisive event in getting him arrested and exiled by his fellow Englishmen…

Dear John Kasich, I’ve got four questions for you: Will you come to my Passover seder? Please? Pretty please? For real? Hear my plea, governor: I’m Jewish, and I’m supposed to lead a seder on April…

What more important natural resource could there be than the air we breathe every minute of every day? And yet, air pollution remains rampant throughout the world. The World Health Organization has…

When scientists first mapped the human genome in 2000, public figures celebrated the milestone in the language of human unity. “In genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99…

In a university’s RCIA class, a portrait of the Catholic Church’s outreach to millennials.

Christian ethicist David Gushee recently coined a phrase that may stick around for a while: ” half-churched Christians.” Mainline Protestant pastors like myself are more than familiar with gloomy…

From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to “Wilding,” myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.

A few years ago, I gave up eggs and dairy for Lent. This wouldn’t have been a particularly weird thing to do were it not for the fact that I wasn’t raised Catholic—I was baptized in an Orthodox church…

Security sells. That’s why, says retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong, despite his best-selling controversial books and popular speeches, his position on Jesus and the Christian church will…

Et tu, Beyoncé? #ReclaimtheBindi wants to challenge cultural appropriation of traditional symbols.