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Social media has made possible a new global distribution of cognitive ephemera. We are tweeting 6,000 times per second—and most of it is garbage. And while social media has facilitated powerful forms…

Now that the Supreme Court has announced that it will hear a consolidated set of cases regarding objections to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act, including the suit brought by the…

If the announcement that the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage requirement (CCR) makes you feel like you’re experiencing deja vu, you…

For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books while imploring scholars that we need a book on this tradition. Finally I applied the imploring to myself…

5 things the church can do if it cares about the children.

Scrutiny of the veracity of Ben Carson’s account of various events in his youth continues, with the Wall Street Journal casting doubt on Carson’s claim to have sheltered white students in his high…

Transgender Europe celebrated its 10 th anniversary. In the U.S., the Union for Reform Judaism, the largest Jewish denomination in the country, affirmed its commitment “to the full equality, inclusion…

The chattering classes are all agog to learn from ​two Princeton economists that white working-class America has been having an even harder time of it than was suspected. To wit, lower-educated white…

This weekend a small cadre of far right Christian leaders are hosting a conference on religious freedom in Iowa. The freedom they are fighting for is the right to organize all of culture according to…

Ben Carson made his mark with white evangelicals with his 1990 memoir, Gifted Hands, and they are now the core of his supporting in the Republican presidential primary. But now that the media is…