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As we say goodbye to a truly dystopian year (and then some), here is a reading list for those who want to look forward to a better year in 2020. This list has been arranged in no particular order and…

I have gradually been catching some holiday spirit. I am feeling a fair amount of good cheer without having to drink heavily. I’m also aware that my elevated holiday mood is directly related to the…

We want people who grew up or are growing up in right-wing Christian environments to understand that it’s okay to trust their doubts; and [because] there’s still a pretty strong taboo in the American public sphere against criticizing any large Christian group we hope this book will help [change that].

One of the stock characters in American public life is the political/religious convert who becomes the expert on the evil he once was. Pick your era or locality of evil, and you’ll find ’em. And while there are certainly authentic converts from totalist or criminal societies who have truths to tell, for others it becomes a confidence game of ever newly found or escalating evil.

Since the United Nations held the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in September 1995, women’s rights and human rights groups in the US and throughout the world have worked to “bring the Beijing platform home.”

A new book aims to show how Christianity continues to shape the West in unseen ways. But one scholar believes a more accurate summary of the argument is that modern secular society is actually saturated in a deep Roman Catholic ethos, which notably includes the doctrine of strong papal authority.