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But “tax slavery” and “slavery to sin”—that’s another thing.

Maybe the White House needs a refresher course on biblical values?

Conversion therapy is a religious experiment, not a “health” treatment.

I wanted to think about how we mediate the past for children—and how we tell stories about children who lived in the past. Writing about religion, memory, and children’s literature became my way of doing that.

Once you produce garbage, by your own logic we have the right to recycle what you have wasted all humanity’s energy to produce (in Man of Steel, Krypton goes to hell literally because they fracked their planet to death); you could say, then, that they turned their planet into a bomb and blew themselves up. How do we make sense of this otherwise? So I suggest Man of Steel as an exercise in the language of racism, the politics of dispossession, and the danger of too much power.

Preach it, brother!

A roundup of religion headlines.

A reassessment of religious rhetoric in the debt ceiling debate.

Budget cuts, the Tea Party, and the Bible.

Foreign policy from the Book of Genesis.