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Since its inception in 2006, SoulCycle has done two things really, really well. First of all, it has turned the stationary biking class—a.k.a. spinning—into a fashionable, upper-crust, New-Agey…

In Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’s recent segment on televangelists, Oliver illuminated how these preachers exploit the special tax exemptions granted by the IRS to churches and church based…

In The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo offers simple advice: go through all of your possessions, one by one, and ask yourself, “Does this bring me joy?”…

A friendly robot Is murdered in the City of Brotherly Love.

An interview with musician Matt Morris, millennial Christian (with a Pagan detour).

Michael Long’s new book, Peaceful Neighbor, dares to place Mister Rogers in his social, historical, and political context.

In this latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD senior correspondent Haroon Moghul offers some good things to blame all Muslims for. The…

In the latest addition to It’s Your Fault, The Cubit ’s series on blame in contemporary society, RD associate editor Andrew Aghapour and contributor Megan Goodwin discuss public shaming and new…

You have questions, big questions. Ask the Dust has answers. From the serious to the sacrilegious, no question is too high or too low! • • • • • • dust@religiondispatches.org • • • • • • Dear Dust, I…

If Sunday morning at 11 o’clock is Christian America’s most segregated hour, then “Amazing Grace” might be its most segregated song. To be sure, it is one of very few pieces of music instantly…