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I grew up in a self-professed non-denominational church. My mother began attending when I was just two years old, and I stayed until I turned 23 years old this past January. I am eternally indebted to…

Did I really need to learn How To Be Here, urgently, right now? The book’s publisher had sent me not one advance reading copy, but three. A sign from the universe? I decided to read the book to find…

How far we’ve come.

Scott Lively, an American who has promoted anti-gay policies around the world, recently argued that, if elected, President Donald Trump should apologize to the world for “Obama’s attempt to force the…

If the adage is correct that “nationalism is an extension of egoism” then national “unity” may be nationalism’s superego. Of late there has emerged a cottage industry regarding Jewish unity. The…

“Who do you think you are—to want to be a writer?” These are the words that haunt the young Mormon girl who is the protagonist of Judith Freeman’s new memoir, The Latter Days (Pantheon). Freeman…

On May 12, the conservative advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom introduced the newest Christian martyrs in the fight over LGBT anti-discrimination laws: Breanna Koski and Joanna Duka, the two…

When people ask questions like “ Why do we pick and choose our religious beliefs?” they usually don’t mean “we” but “they.” This is because within such a question, there is often an implied criticism…

It was one of those moments last summer when it looked like the short-lived Trump train would be a train wreck. Asked about criticism he had received from former presidential candidate and POW hero…

You can read about them in a steady stream of reports heralding the demise of 21st-century American Christianity: the growing population of “Nones” who are no longer filling church pews. The label, of…