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Years ago a mother told me a story about her young son who liked to play cowboys and church, his very own role-playing game. One day she overheard him reenacting Jesus summoning Lazarus from the tomb; the little boy, toy gun in each hand, shouted, “Lazarus, come out with your hands…

It all started this past May with an email composed by an undergraduate student in “Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought,” a course offered in the Religious Studies department at the University of Illinois. The student forwarded to the department chair an email the…

Reaction to evangelical opposition: whatever.

As scholars have been reminding us for a very long time by now, private reading and the linear thinking valued by many as essential for deep, contemplative thought, did not feature much in the lives of the people who pretty much brought us the contemplative tradition.

Did you know that President Obama wants to take away your ability to be a Christian? That’s what Missouri Republican Congressional candidate Ed Martin asserted in a radio interview this week. Martin…

Islamophobes try to exploit political differences but the fact is, few care.

Texas denies accreditation to teach from “a Biblical scientific creationist viewpoint.”

What does Mormonism have to do with it?

Herb Titus, a lawyer for the far-right Gun Owners of America, is jubilant over last week’s Supreme Court decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which the Court held that state and…

Protecting a kindergartner’s braids, creating a sacred feather repository.