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What if the same reasoning were applied during the Civil Rights Era?

Why is the religious right so unhappy?

A clip from a 1996 doc shows a teacher nodding along as students talk Creationism…

The “party of ‘no’ ” seems hell-bent on remaining also the minority party for the foreseeable future.

This episode perhaps works better as a parable of romance than a parable of religion. But popular religion in the Christian tradition has placed a lot of focus on…

If only Americans could be honest about their history.

That’s what the posters are saying. And lest you think they just mean happy-go-lucky, the image on the broadsheet shows…

Christopher Hitchens cannot be accused of being a name-dropper. The names come positively flinging off the pages of his newly-released memoir, Hitch-22, but can he be blamed for befriending some of the most interesting and influential figures of his time, like Salman Rushdie, Edward…

Histories of war and the military are often written as if war were a completely areligious practice. We have occasional stories of exceptionally devout generals (or presidents) and aphorisms about atheists and foxholes, but few historians seem interested in weaving religion into narratives of American war-craft whether as a way of thinking about decisions to enter war…