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Over the holidays, the New York Times ran a punishing profile of Marc Gafni, an ex-rabbi who reinvented himself as a New Age spiritual leader. A founder of the Center for Integral Wisdom and organizer…

The words and deeds of those in the U.S. who oppose abortion have perhaps never been as fevered or their consequences as severe as they were in 2015. At the beginning of the year, the new Congress…

What inspired you to write An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation? I used some of the work of feminist, Black feminist, and womanist writers when I was in graduate school, but I had never…

In announcing new executive action to more rigorously enforce requirements for background checks to purchase guns, President Obama today called for balancing the rights of gun owners with other…

We are thrilled to announce that RD Senior Correspondent Patricia Miller has been honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS). The publisher of Science magazine, AAAS is…

As the new year begins, Larycia Hawkins, the Wheaton professor who was suspended for the assertion that Muslims and Christians worship “the same God,” is still not fully reinstated. Hawkins’ choice to…

While Sen. Ted Cruz’s purported lock on the evangelical vote may be l argely an illusion, as noted by RD’s Sarah Posner, it’s potent enough to rattle Donald Trump into making assertions about Cruz’s…

Just after Christmas, Ted Cruz met with several hundred evangelical leaders at a Texas ranch belonging to Farris Wilks, a fracking billionaire who, along with his brother Dan and their wives, have…

Thirty years ago, S. Boyd Eaton laid out the foundation for the Paleo diet in a brief article for The New England Journal of Medicine, which he co-authored with the anthropologist Melvin Konner. Eaton…

Three days ago, on December 28, Asra Nomani entered the 1000+ comment stream to her Washington Post op-ed of the previous week: Dear Friends, Thank you so much for your support and intellect on this…