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You’ve heard me talk before about the perennial (quadrennial, I guess) stories about religion and politics that always pop up in presidential campaign years: things like “Democrats must reach out to…

Welcome to the first in a sporadic series of posts on popularly misunderstood, misused, or misleading terms, stories, and ideas from the world of religion. In this first installment, “Miss Conception…

If the mass killings in Orlando and in Charleston have anything in common it’s that both the dance club and the church were thought to be “safe space.” The horrors that unfolded in both places tell us…

It’s those little Satans that spoil the broth?

July 22 was recognized as the European Day for Victims of Hate Crime; the date was chosen to commemorate the victims of the 2011 massacre in Norway that claimed 77 lives. Jordyn Taylor reported on…

I took Trump as my savior; you take him too—NOT.

Last night, Ted Cruz preached a message of conscience and principled conservatism to the Republican National Convention. He was met with an almost deafening chorus of boos and jeers. In another…

Reassessing the Left’s “European Homophobia Thesis.”

There’s a new cottage industry devoted to explanations of the quasi-mystical appeal of Donald Trump. Is he a prosperity gospel preacher? A Platonic tyrant? Or is he a truth-telling jester? At the Los…