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Religion Dispatches
Last week, The Cubit published an interview with Chade-Meng Tan, best known for his work as Google’s in-house mindfulness expert. He asked us for the opportunity to elaborate on some of the key…
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Religion Dispatches
David Eagle reports in The Christian Century what many small-church pastors have known for a while: megachurches are where parishioners go when they want a great (big) youth program for the kids and…
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Religion Dispatches
Is it possible to coerce someone to pray? Is it still coercion if you say please? If you ask Peter Bormuth, who is trying to sue the County of Jackson, Michigan for coercing religious participation at…
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Today is the National Day of Prayer in the United States, an annual day of observance that was formally established by Congress in 1952. The law that establishes a National Day of Prayer ( 36 U.S.C. §…
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A measure that passed late last Thursday night in the House Armed Services Committee is being called a stealth attack on LGBT rights and may be a harbinger of a new strategy in continued battles over…
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Religion Dispatches
I heard Rev. Daniel Berrigan speak about eleven years ago on a snowy Saturday afternoon in Brooklyn’s beautiful St. Francis Xavier Church. He talked about reading the Bible as part of a spiritual…
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Religion Dispatches
Even the well-intentioned use of “religious freedom” can obscure other problems.
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Religion Dispatches
Donald Trump has a way of turning things topsy-turvy, and the religious world is certainly not exempt. The Southern Baptist Convention (or some of its leaders, anyway) have joined the Never Trump…
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I walked away after seeing Beyoncé’s hour-long visual album, “Lemonade,” with the profound sense that I had “been to church.” And this is no small claim for someone who has devoted her life and work…
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Now that Ted Cruz’s last hope for stopping Donald Trump rests on ginning up panic and outrage over transgender women using the ladies room, we can officially say that the Republican nominating process…
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