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Pundits rely far too much on what we say and they miss the deeper picture.

From Trump’s support among evangelicals to Bernie Sanders’ secular Judaism to Hillary’s “voice of God” ad campaign, the religion-in-politics rule book is getting a major rewrite in 2016. And while…

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power addressed the Obama administration’s promotion of LGBT human rights around the world in an address to a Human Rights Campaign gathering. Georgia…

I’ve been a fan of Psalm 73 ever since I read Martin Buber’s interpretation of it almost twenty-five years ago. So it was a pleasant surprise to find it cited in David Brooks’ latest, and to date most…

Tuesday was not a happy day for religion writers like myself who explore the intersection of the Catholic Church and American politics. With Marco Rubio’s withdrawal from the GOP nomination race on…

By profession, Sam Harris is a brawler. The New Atheist writer has ongoing feuds with Salon, AlterNet, The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald, and plenty of religious leaders. Whether Harris is a brawler…

Nobody listens to religious leaders these days. Nobody.

From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to “Wilding,” myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.