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He’s had a weird year.

The Internet functions as a sort of midway point between the personal and the public: you can be part of a community of fans, and yet you don’t have to bare the depths of your soul.

How different might this election cycle have been had more voters been willing to be curious about, understand, accept, or even embrace a pluralist nation, rather than panic in the face of the other?

With all the memes wishing a good riddance to 2016, and John Oliver’s epic send-off to this annus horribilis, it may seem small comfort that this was a year that might be remembered as one of the most…

A new book from married co-authors, Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt, explores the intricacies of mixed partnerships and blended heritages.

Churchgoers have all kinds of reasons for choosing to worship where they do and that’s a zone of privacy that should generally be respected.

There is little doubt as to why Orthodoxy seems appealing to a white nationalist movement.

We would do well to remember that our good news first came as an act of divine protest in the body of a poor, brown baby born in a barn.

When I saw Trump bumper stickers on the backpacks of middle-class white kids in Tidewater, Virginia, I had an inkling—but only an inkling, like a twitchy nighttime fear—that Trump could win. But then…

It’s difficult to think of a better example of the rigorous, imaginative work that will be necessary to prepare for a Trump presidency.