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Donald Trump is rejiggering the way the Republican Party does religion. Give Trump credit for one thing: exposing, in plain view, that much of the religious right is driven more by politics than by…

The following essay contains some minor spoilers. – eds. Imagine a world where robots look, act, and function like human beings, minus consciousness or free will. They’ve been programmed to take over…

One of the first posts I wrote for RD was whether or not there was or would be a discernible “Francis effect,” a term used in a variety of ways, but frequently understood to indicate an uptick in…

Since its inception in 2006, SoulCycle has done two things really, really well. First of all, it has turned the stationary biking class—a.k.a. spinning—into a fashionable, upper-crust, New-Agey…

Over on his popular blog, Chris Boeskool, a progressive Christian, has suggested that there’s something rather un-Christian about the mocking posts in response to the news of Josh Duggar’s Ashley…

Last week, The New York Times’ Rukmini Callimachi published ” A Theology of Rape,” a report as important as it is horrifying. Unfortunately, like several recent exposés on the Islamic State in Iraq…

Richard Blanco, the openly gay Cuban-American poet who read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, composed and read a poem for the ceremony reopening the U.S. embassy in Havana. Guatemalan…

A conversation with the Rev. John Dorhauer, incoming president of the United Church of Christ.

Today over 130 civil rights, religious liberty, educational, feminist, and LGBT rights groups wrote a letter to President Obama, urging him to instruct the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal…

In Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’s recent segment on televangelists, Oliver illuminated how these preachers exploit the special tax exemptions granted by the IRS to churches and church based…