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The World Psychiatric Association has released a statement on gender identity and same-sex attraction and behaviors, which says in part, “Psychiatrists have a social responsibility to advocate for a…

Last week, the blogger Hemant Mehta, who writes under the moniker “The Friendly Atheist,” told us to remove our heads from our asses and send Sam Harris an apology for an essay we published the…

This week, Utah and Idaho delivered Bernie’s largest margin of victories in the Democratic primaries since Vermont—with both giving him nearly 80 percent of the vote. The record turnouts in many…

On a historic trip to Cuba this week, and in the wake of a terrorist attack in Brussels, President Obama sat in a Havana stadium extolling the sacred power of baseball to a trio of ESPN commentators…

The denial of women of color’s reproductive freedom has led to a sizable health disparity relative to white women. Zubik would help maintain that gap.

Christian ethicist David Gushee recently coined a phrase that may stick around for a while: ” half-churched Christians.” Mainline Protestant pastors like myself are more than familiar with gloomy…

Mormons don’t like Donald Trump. That now seems abundantly clear after yesterday’s results in Utah where Ted Cruz trounced Trump, winning nearly 70 percent of the vote. With a paltry 14 percent, Trump…

Traveling through India in the summer of 1998, I arrived with some friends at Varanasi’s main train station. Wanting to retrace the steps of characters from Shusako Endo’s novel, Deep River, we made a…

A campaign launched by Baltimore-based Lutheran pastor and Slate Project co-founder Jason Chesnut, #ReLent2016 reinvents Lent as a “digital discipline.” Each week of #ReLent2016 has a different theme…

Last month, the Broadway cast of Hamilton dazzled with a live Grammy performance, and last week they made it to the White House. Hamilton is a game changer, but not just for theater—I believe that the…