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The narrative of victimization surrounding the story of Dr. Prabhjot Singh is overly simplistic and incongruent with Sikh traditions.

Zombie media makes clear distinctions between the human and the zombie—and killing them saves us. Yet, there are resonances of a more complicated vision of the zombie. What if remnants of humanity linger in those resurrected corpses? Or what if zombies represent something fundamental about humans that we need to examine?

The government shutdown has sparked a new wave of talk decrying the unnecessary functions of government and praising the private sector, volunteerism, and the ability of Americans to take care of themselves and their own. Groups like “

FDR is held responsible for many things, but no one has linked his legacy to the recent threat of a government shutdown.

It’s impossible for me to think about the goings-on in the House Republican caucus without recalling the story of Jesus and the Gadarene (or Gerasene) demoniac in Mark 5. A lurid story if ever there was one, and…

“Atheism is boring. We’re both post-religious”: An interview with Sunday Assembly co-founders Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones.

A full third of Jewish Americans think that followers of Jesus Christ can also be Jews, though theologically speaking, Jesus isn’t messiah material for religious Jews. So what gives?

I was most struck by one too-clever turn of phrase in the recent Pew Survey of U.S. Jews. The summary read, “ believing in Jesus, however, is enough to place one beyond the pale: 60% of U.S. Jews say a person cannot be Jewish if he or she believes…

Individual and group understandings of their ontological positions are ignored to everyone’s peril when we relegate theology to historical study.

Here, in the order in which the Ouija board instructed us to offer them, is an assortment of stories about ghosts, death, fundamentalists, and general spookiness.