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The Moment the Myth of Alien Abduction Was Born

The Moment the Myth of Alien Abduction Was Born

Betty and Barney Hill Took an Interesting Trip to the Doctor's Office

By David J. Halperin | March 26, 2020

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

How America’s Oldest Bookstore Has Survived Across the Centuries

Andrew Belonsky on the Moravian Book Shop in Pennsylvania

By Andrew Belonsky | March 16, 2020

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Lessons From the Qur'an as the Bombs Fell on Tehran

Alireza Doostdar on Blessing, Punishment, and Witnessing War

By Alireza Doostdar | March 13, 2020

On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison's Catholicism

On the Paradoxes of Toni Morrison's Catholicism

Nick Ripatrazone Considers the Faith of an American Icon

By Nick Ripatrazone | March 2, 2020

Censorship and Abuse in the Word of Faith Fellowship

Censorship and Abuse in the Word of Faith Fellowship

On the Darkness Within Jane Whaley's Church

By Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr | February 19, 2020

Books That Blur the Lines Between Living and Dead

Books That Blur the Lines Between Living and Dead

Jess Kidd's Favorite Ghost Stories

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Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

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Sacred Scripture Lives and Evolves, is Never Fixed

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By Karen Armstrong | December 3, 2019

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On Engaging with Judaism Through Poetry: A Roundtable

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By Rachel Mennies | December 2, 2019

Where Have All the Sin-Eaters Gone? (We Could Use Some Right Now)

Where Have All the Sin-Eaters Gone? (We Could Use Some Right Now)

Thomas Lynch on Breaking Bread with the Dead, and Old Catholic Traditions

By Thomas Lynch | November 27, 2019

How Religious Revivals Gave Women a Voice in Colonial America

How Religious Revivals Gave Women a Voice in Colonial America

"Proper and upright did not mean passive and docile."

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How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

On Her Final novel, Daniel Deronda

By Norman Lebrecht | November 22, 2019

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A Festival of Destruction in One of the Oldest Cities in the World

Michael Cunningham Travels to the Southern Italian City of Matera

By Michael Cunningham | November 21, 2019

Inside the Republican Party's Last-Ditch Scramble to Save Their House Majority

Inside the Republican Party's Last-Ditch Scramble to Save Their House Majority

Anne Nelson Looks Behind the Curtain of the 2018 Midterm Elections

By Anne Nelson | November 7, 2019

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