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On the windy bluffs of Weehawken, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr regard one another coldly. In awful synchrony, the pair raise their flintlock pistols, each one…
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A year ago, the University of California at Berkeley announced that it had been awarded a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, totaling $1 million dollars, to support programming at the…
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Speaking broadly, white supremacist ideas rest on two premises. One is about power. The other is about nature. The power side we’re all familiar with: the idea that racial categories should define…
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Though Wheaton professor Larycia Hawkins was officially reprimanded for claiming that Muslims and Christian worship the same god, it was Hawkins’ decision to wear a hijab that has inspired women and…
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The only good that I find in a St. Serra is that it could force us all to meditate on the ambivalence that haunts Christianity in this hemisphere.
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International religious freedom has become the civilizing discourse of our time.
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The third iteration of the National Congregations Study, led by Mark Chaves and Shawna Anderson, was released last week and picked up on by the New York Times yesterday. It’s a fairly large study…
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In tampering illegally with foreign nations on behalf of LGBT equality, Hacktivists associated with Anonymous have managed to raise the ire of those they’d hoped to help.
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Now where have we heard that before…
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