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Last Sunday evening, December 7, a plump pastor named Lee Minemann interrupted services in the largest Protestant church in Guadalajara, Mexico. Taking the podium, Minemann announced that Samuel…

The U.S. has been publicly, globally, shamed in consequence of the gut-wrenching disclosures in the Torture Report. And, oh my, how we dreaded this day of revelation, especially coming on the heels of…

Prof. Zoloth’s proposal tells us everything we need to know about the malaise poisoning the study of religion.

Writing in Crux, associate editor John Allen cautions against the “overblown” narrative of “perceived resistance from conservative American bishops to Pope Francis’ progressive agenda,” despite the…

From its Christian and colonial beginnings, America has always trafficked in the fear of black people.

In a powerful NPR segment (listen below) on whether the Black Church still matters, Michel Martin spoke with Reverend Raphael Warnock senior pastor at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta (Martin…

Remember a few weeks ago I wrote that Israel will be a 2016 litmus test for evangelical voters? Here’s more evidence that I’m right: Zeke Miller reports in TIME that all Republican National Committee…

Getting lost in the music and found in the sound.

The war on Christmas, it’s been well documented, is not a real thing. Though there are disputes about whether or not it’s rude to say “Merry Christmas” to the less than 10 percent of Americans who don…