the supernatural

Years ago when I was co-directing the Berkeley-Harvard program in comparative religion our conference in Cambridge had divided into two camps, the ethical relativists and the ethical absolutists…

What looks at first like Republican gullibility is really Fundamentalism’s century-long battle with expert knowledge.

It wasn’t Christianity that helped make Republican voters more likely to be duped, but susceptibility to fake news has its particular historical origin in Christian fundamentalism.

Whether it’s the Christmas miracle, the dreidel proclaiming that “a great miracle happened there,” or Saturday Night Live poking fun at the miracle narrative, ‘tis the season for miracle mentions to become commonplace.

ABC’s black-ish dismantles narrow depictions of black religious life.

Black Christian public intellectuals are a vanishing group.

Heavenly jaunts aren’t the only kind of near-death experience.

I took Trump as my savior; you take him too—NOT.

In April, a group of Satanists infiltrated a conference for people who believe they’re the victims of a Satanic conspiracy. RD contributor Joseph Laycock has answers to all of your burning questions…

Since the 1990s the Discovery Institute, a conservative think-tank, has tried to make it easier to teach intelligent design in public schools. They have had some successes, and one big setback: in…