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Lowlights from Thanksgiving Family Forum.

The first time I went to the American Academy of Religion conference it really got my hopes up. This was the fall of 2006 and, with only a summer in between, I’d just finished college and begun my first year of a PhD program in religious studies…

Concern that administration will cave to USCCB.

Opponents of marriage equality may be celebrating too soon.

A conversation with composer Nico Muhly.

I lie a lot on airplanes. Not in any way that should upset the TSA or anything like that—just to the question “What do you do?” I don’t like admitting to strangers what it is I do. I’m a Ph.D. student…

For Jeff Sharlet, the weird is out there: lost in the Wild West; hidden behind suburban fences and Hell Houses; on scratchy 1920s blues recordings and Mennonite funerals. His rare gift has been to make friends with the weird and almost make peace with it—which doesn’t mean he’s not skeptical.

Will Cardinal Sean O’Malley, who has condemned the zeal of colleagues, survive their increasingly bellicose stand on abortion?

7th state in a row rules against claims that supporters should remain secret due to reprisal.

Bishops’ “religious liberty” campaign a distraction from gap between US Catholics’ relatively tolerant views on LGBT issues and the hierarchy’s anti-gay positions.