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What Happens When Satanists Try to Build a Public Monument?

What Happens When Satanists Try to Build a Public Monument?

For Some Residents in Belle Plaine, MN,
Religious Freedom Has Its Limits

By Jay Wexler | July 30, 2019

How Extreme Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Entered American Life

How Extreme Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Entered American Life

Zahra Noorbakhsh and Asma Uddin: What "Religious Freedom" Means for U.S. Muslims

By Zahra Noorbakhsh | July 15, 2019

Olivet Nazarene University fires new teacher for including curse words and a lesbian in his novel

Olivet Nazarene University fires new teacher for including curse words and a lesbian in his novel

By Corinne Segal | July 11, 2019

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

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The Wild Visionary at the Heart<br> of Early Christianity

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A Cult Can Be You and Your Weird Charismatic Friend

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

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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

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Group Sex Therapy at the Local Synagogue?

Group Sex Therapy at the Local Synagogue?

On Reading the Sexy Bits of the Bible

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Who Needs Astrology?

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