Search

On a warm day in July 2013, I found myself on the wrong end of a canceled flight out of RDU Airport. I used the opportunity to travel into downtown Raleigh to observe one of the early Moral Monday…

David Silverman, the president of American Atheists and author of the new atheist polemic Fighting God, really doesn’t want you to think he’s a dick. Instead, he wants you to think he’s “That Pretty…

Anglican Communion: Episcopal Church ‘Suspended,’ Anti-Gay Bishops Not Satisfied We reported last week that conservative Anglican bishops were threatening a walk-out of this week’s primates’ gathering…

Rev. William Barber’s faith grows out of the Cane Ridge Revival of 1801, part of the Second Great Awakening. In his new book, Barber notes that the descendants of that revival were active participants…

Chances are you have heard something about the Rev. William Barber II. He is the giant of a man (in more senses than one) who launched the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina in 2013—a movement…

An interview with journalist and activist Frederick Clarkson

With Kim Davis and representatives of the Little Sisters of the Poor both trotted out as as GOP guests at President Obama’s state of the union speech, it’s clear that “religious freedom” is here to…

Note: last November, The Cubit asked religion scholar Alan Levinovitz to review Derek Lin’s new book, The Tao of Happiness, Stories from Chuang Tzu for Your Spiritual Journey. Alan wrote his…

Before I tell you why Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column, “ Germany on the Brink,” is so very disturbing, let me make clear that he and I see eye-to-eye on some of the issues he discusses…

Poor David Brooks. He wants to write about what ails the evangelical affection for Ted Cruz and what he sees as a tenuous relationship with Christian virtue, but he seems to misapprehend that…