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I had to read Brooks’ column on Laudato si a couple of times to realize fully what a risk-taker he is to put this stuff out there, apodictically as it were, without pausing to consider whether Francis…

It’s all about the apocalypse.

“I know that not all Christians are right-wing extremist terrorists, but why are all right-wing extremist terrorists Christians?” This is the question I’m never asked. But as somebody who actually…

In the days before the release of Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment, Laudauto Si, the level of hype among the Catholic journalists and religion writers on my Twitter feed approached Star…

Mexico: Catholic bishops perform anti-marriage-equality exorcism At conservative journal First Things, intern Matthew Young contrasts the “weak” opposition from Irish church leaders to the marriage…

“God wept; but that mattered little to an unbelieving age; what mattered most was that the world wept and still is weeping and is blind with tears and blood” –W.E.B. Dubois, from Black Reconstruction…

In Russia, church and state are increasingly aligned in promoting “traditional Russian values” over those of the West.

SBC’s Ronnie Floyd name-drops Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian he appears to know nothing at all about.

In a brief article in an unassuming 1967 edition of Science, a medieval historian from the University of California argued a now infamous thesis in my own field of religion and ecology. “Christianity…

“It’s me, it’s me, it’s me O Lord, standing in the need of prayer.” - old-time gospel song “Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; but…