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Editor’s note: The author has asked to publish this piece pseudonymously to spare his congregation controversy. When Aylan Kurdi’s short, unfortunate life ended in the waters off Turkey this summer, I…

Asia: UNESCO on religion, culture and anti-LGBT bullying and violence UNESCO released a report on school bullying, violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in the…

This weekend, downtown Atlanta is entirely overrun by scholars of religion. Thousands have gathered for the 2015 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (along with the Society for Biblical…

If Hollywood is any indicator, one of the nation’s great romantic fantasies is to fall in love in the presence of death, a desire that animates two high-grossing genres. Let’s call the first kill-and…

After the brutal attacks in Paris on November 13th, more and more people are worried about an ISIS attack in our country, and are asking big questions: Where does the movement come from? What is its…

The U.S. Catholic bishops have now gathered four times for their semi-annual meeting since Pope Francis was elected in March of 2014: twice for the fall plenary and twice for their spring meeting. It…

In honor of the shameful refusal to accept Syrian refugees, a rewrite of the “Statue of Liberty” poem.

Some of the Republican presidential candidates are fond of Holocaust analogies. Mike Huckabee, for example, has compared abortion to the Holocaust, and has said the U.S. nuclear deal with Iran “will…

Last week, a terrorist group launched a coordinated attack across Paris. In the past few weeks, the very same group took down a Russian airliner full of returning tourists, bombed a neighborhood in…

As a former (veteran, even) employee of Twitter, I am used to people expressing shock and confusion at the need for “just a website” to employ so many people, or a genuine wonder if we all sit around…