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Religion Dispatches

Christian Founder of Online Dating Site Wants to Ease Gay Pain

He’ll start by “figuring out homosexuality.”
Candace Chellew-Hodge
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American Buddhism: Beyond the Search for Inner Peace

When I showed up, the room at Harvard Divinity School was already overflowing. World-renowned professors were packing the aisles along with undergrads, standing in the doorways, and squeezing in behind furniture. At the front of the room stood Bhikkhu Bodhi—a short, soft-spoken Buddhist monk…
Joshua Eaton
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Why Did Utah’s Senator Mike Lee Vote Against the Violence Against Women Act?

Constitutional pharisaism runs in the family.
Joanna Brooks
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Did the National Prayer Breakfast Create a New Conservative Superstar?

The new celebrity of Dr. Ben Carson.
Sarah Posner
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AFA Shocked By SNL’s “Djesus Uncrossed” Video

Guys, the video mocks Tarantino, not… forget it.
Evan Derkacz
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How to Craft a D.I.Y. Old Testament

Ten Questions for Benjamin Morse.
Benjamin Morse
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Religion Dispatches

Toward a Non-Malignant Faith: An Interview with Brian McLaren

What McLaren is after is a Christian faith that is not automatically hostile to other faiths and to no faith: he calls this “strong-benevolent” Christianity, observing along the way that only active peacemakers can really claim to be connected to God with any real degree of credibility—a point that should be obvious but isn’t.
Peter Laarman
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“I Will Leave BSA if Discriminatory Policy Does Not Change.”

15-year-old LDS Life Scout speaks out.
Joanna Brooks
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The Evolution of Religion, According to Darwin

“Today we’d probably call Darwin something of a seeker. You might say he’s something of a proto-None.”
Elizabeth Drescher
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Pope Tweeted into Retirement

Perhaps it wasn’t just the pope’s health that sent him into retirement, but his consternation at our increasingly networked lives.
Rachel Wagner
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