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Late last month, when my pastor Isaac Villegas was getting his ministerial credentials suspended for officiating a same-sex wedding, I suddenly remembered an email he sent me in 2014, when I—through…

As I predicted after the first two lawsuits were filed against Mississippi’s House Bill 1523, a third suit now claims that the state’s outrageous new religious liberty law violates the First Amendment…

The culture wars are over, according to Barton Swaim, a former speechwriter for former South Carolina Gov. Mark Stanford. The left has won and all that’s left, according to Swaim, is to negotiate the…

What inspired you to write If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right? I really wanted to figure something out: what the surprising, strange, unexpected return…

If you’ve seen any news headline on Bangladesh in Western media over the past 15 months, odds are strong the headline included the phrase “hacked to death”: Writer hacked to death outside a book fair…

I grew up in a self-professed non-denominational church. My mother began attending when I was just two years old, and I stayed until I turned 23 years old this past January. I am eternally indebted to…

Did I really need to learn How To Be Here, urgently, right now? The book’s publisher had sent me not one advance reading copy, but three. A sign from the universe? I decided to read the book to find…

How far we’ve come.

Scott Lively, an American who has promoted anti-gay policies around the world, recently argued that, if elected, President Donald Trump should apologize to the world for “Obama’s attempt to force the…

If the adage is correct that “nationalism is an extension of egoism” then national “unity” may be nationalism’s superego. Of late there has emerged a cottage industry regarding Jewish unity. The…