Ryan Andrew Newson is Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Campbell University. His new book, Cut in Stone: Confederate Monuments and Theological Disruption releases on July 1, 2020 from…
In her most recent exhibit, ” The Ecstasy of St. Kara,” the American artist Kara Walker made a turn toward religion, both in terms of imagery and in the understanding of art’s religious function. A…
Listen to RD senior correspondent Haroon Moghul discuss his new memoir How to Be a Muslim with Terry Gross on Fresh Air. For more, read RD’s 10Q with Haroon.
While most of us (including your faithful RD staffers) were prepping the grill for a long weekend celebrating this country’s problematic patriotism, the Texas Supreme Court on Friday issued an ominous…
Madrid hosted the massive WorldPride and an affiliated human rights conference this week. Among those who attended were Iceland’s former Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, the first openly LGBT…
Years ago when I was co-directing the Berkeley-Harvard program in comparative religion our conference in Cambridge had divided into two camps, the ethical relativists and the ethical absolutists…
Dan Schultz gets it exactly right: Democrats don’t need to learn to speak the language of faith in order to win. Predictably, Dan’s analysis—in two recent pieces here in RD—provoked consternation…