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Given the amount of information we process on a day-to-day basis, paying attention to minutiae is difficult. The small things pass us by; we miss detail and texture. Given news and ecological change…

Author Erik Love answers RD’s 10 Questions

Editors from the International Press Institute told American journalists “that Donald Trump’s hostility toward the free press is emboldening dictators and autocratic leaders across the globe.” Human…

It’s perhaps a sign of the times that two of the four articles in the Washington Post’s “Outlook” section dedicated to the 500 th anniversary of the Reformation are actually about the role of…

What inspired you to write Why Horror Seduces? The book is based on years of research, but it grows out of personal curiosity and fascination. What’s with all the monsters and scary stories in popular…

Confession: I hold an ordination from a denomination that, broadly speaking, does not ordain women. I have benefited greatly from this ministerial minority status. It propelled me forward in attending…

Right now, we are living in a global period of democratic decline and the rise of authoritarianism. From Moscow to Manila, from Brasilia to Budapest, from Warsaw to Washington, D.C., authoritarian…

Since January, opening email yields at least one urgent call to action from any number of progressive groups. As a journalist who’s spent the better part of a decade reporting on the LGBT community, I…

Dylan Krieger writes of the prophets who eat scrolls and insist the parchment tastes just like the honey of that many-mansioned heaven in the by-and-by sky.

John Dominic Crossan: “Scholarly research on the Bible is inadequate or irrelevant if at least some of the scholars do not communicate their insights to laypeople who are eager to think and who are aware that baptism is not the same as lobotomy.”