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How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

Randy Boyagoda on Religious-Political Satire

By Randy Boyagoda | July 9, 2019

Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab

Massoud Hayoun on What It Means to Identify as Both Jewish and Arab

Untangling the Imperfect Narratives of Religious History

By Massoud Hayoun | June 25, 2019

Discovering America's Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

Discovering America's Heavenly Kingdom of Oil

On One Man's Journey Through Christianity and Crude

By Darren Dochuk | June 17, 2019

Rebecca Solnit: How Internet Insinuation Becomes Campaign Fact

Rebecca Solnit: How Internet Insinuation Becomes Campaign Fact

On the Curious Case of Elizabeth Warren and the "Charter School Lobbyist" Who Wasn't

By Rebecca Solnit | June 6, 2019

The Quiet Revolution in Evangelical<br> Christian Publishing

The Quiet Revolution in Evangelical
Christian Publishing

And the Women Who Have Had Enough

By Kathryn Watson | May 2, 2019

Why Was Shakespeare Wary of <br>Writing About Religion?

Why Was Shakespeare Wary of
Writing About Religion?

He Would've Made a Terrible Puritan...

By Jonathan Bate | April 30, 2019

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The Wild Visionary at the Heart
of Early Christianity

By Jay Parini | April 19, 2019

A Cult Can Be You and Your Weird Charismatic Friend

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Entering Cults?

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My Jewish Grandfather, Handpicked by Hitler to Curate the Museum of Extinct Races?

My Jewish Grandfather, Handpicked by Hitler to Curate the Museum of Extinct Races?

Bram Presser on Unraveling the Unlikeliest of Family Histories

By Bram Presser | April 11, 2019

Finding a Spiritual Home in the Weirdness of My Polish Heritage

Finding a Spiritual Home in the Weirdness of My Polish Heritage

Michelle Tea on Satisfying the Need for Witchy Devotions

By Michelle Tea | April 9, 2019

Group Sex Therapy at the Local Synagogue?

Group Sex Therapy at the Local Synagogue?

On Reading the Sexy Bits of the Bible

By Nadia Bolz-Weber | March 22, 2019

Who Needs Astrology?

Who Needs Astrology?

From Myths to Memes, Tabitha Prado-Richardson Wonders About the Stars

By Tabitha Prado-Richardson | March 6, 2019

The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

The Forgotten Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawaii

A Dark Chapter in the History of Religious Persecution

By Duncan Ryūken Williams | February 25, 2019

In the Face of Cancer, My One-Sided Deal With God

In the Face of Cancer, My One-Sided Deal With God

Julie Yip-Williams on Illness, Faith and Family

By Julie Yip-Williams | February 4, 2019

In Aristotle's Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

In Aristotle's Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

On the Virtues of "Civic Friendship"

By Edith Hall | January 23, 2019

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