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Observers expect that Pope Francis’s environmental encyclical—supposedly titled Laudatio sii, or “Praised Be”—will be released within the next few weeks. Cue the predictable conservative backlash…

Tony Campolo has an epiphany. Franklin Graham has a meltdown. And Scott Walker decides to time-travel. It might be the start of a joke: three white evangelical men walk into a bar (or a Chick-Fil-A)….

For a film inspired by a Disney theme-park subdivision, Tomorrowland has a lot more going for it than one might expect. Above all, the film is, now and again, surprisingly moving—a story about a quest…

Ireland is the most beautiful paradox. We have a centuries-long tradition of hospitality to the stranger, yet we have been pretty terrible at resolving our differences with each other. (Until, that is…

On the first day of June, celebrated as Pride month in many places, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for all countries to provide legal protections for same-sex…

Emma Green has a solid piece at The Atlantic detailing religious reaction to Caitlyn Jenner’s appearance in Vanity Fair. It’s mostly what you’d expect: one conservative Christian blogger called Jenner…

“Comfort me.” “COMFORT ME.” “COMFORT ME! COMFORT ME!! COMFORT ME!!!” Bono is standing at the edge of the stage that runs the length of The Forum arena in Inglewood, Calif., howling that word— comfort…

Or, in twitterspeak, #jamesconewasright

How are we to approach science in the wake of recent scandals?

An interview with Jonathan J. Edwards on “Superchurch: the Rhetoric and Politics of American Fundamentalism”