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Idle times are upon us. Traffic jams, holiday commutes, and New Year’s resolution jogs were once the stuff of nightmares, but fear not: there exists a medium so captivating, so perfectly tailored…

No other end-of-year list can hope to offer such profound juxtapositions: a groundbreaking female Mennonite pastor alongside an “immortalist”; the transcendent wisdom of a civil rights leader…

In an interview in the current issue of The Paris Review, James Wood asks Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard if he has ever experienced religious ecstasy. “No,” Knausgaard replies, “but they say…

2014 was the year of the Satanist. In December 2013, The Satanic Temple announced plans to erect a statue of Baphomet on the grounds of the capital in Oklahoma City. This Baphomet statue was intended…

2014 was the year that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) made a comeback, and now religious exemptions are the talk of the (policy wonk) town. As Hobby Lobby emboldened those seeking…

Asking how you reconcile faith and science is sort of like asking, ‘How do you reconcile being a scientist and a Detroit Lions fan?’

Protesters have taken to the streets this season to disrupt a system which perpetually declares black and brown lives less than human—a system that thrives on Wall Street, in congress, in institutions…

From religious violence to fear of contagion to economic and racial injustice: taking full measure of what we are up against.

Pope Francis: Winner When not busy sending dogs to heaven (oops, not really) or brokering the restoration of US-Cuban diplomatic relations, the pope made a key personnel change that resulted in the…

Here’s a heartwarming holiday story from Springfield, Massachusetts, where city councilor Bud Williams said at a Chabad Lubavitch-sponsored Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony, “Jesus is the reason for…