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Conflict has its uses. A form of social interaction, it seems nearly essential to maintaining the structures…

The neatly structured song of the martyrs (Revelation 15:3-4) is a turning point in the book. The…

A Country Without Churches Dominic Bouck, O. P. , Washington Post It’s Finally Here: The Big Review Paper…

Laurence Moore’s Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans is a study of American religion that is not…

Both Old and New Testaments, writes David Martin (Pentecostalism, 12) include principles that “by persistent extension and…

Last December, when the United States announced that it would be re-establishing diplomatic relations with Communist Cuba…

One of the biggest moments in this second GOP debate was Carly Fiorina deftly taking control of…

Aimee Byrd and I would dearly like to withdraw our claim that gender differences are ‘irrelevant to…

The Archbishop of Canterbury: Dissolving the Anglican Church to Save It David A. Graham, Atlantic Stop the Robot…

Greek myths valorize blindness. Tiresias is a blind seer, and when Oedipus finally “sees,” he becomes Tiresias,…

The saints playing harps and singing on the fiery firmament are there because they are victorious over…

Girard’s theory of scapegoating as the great virtue of explaining how the death of Jesus can remake…

Denominationalism encourages a stance of irony (insincerity, Charles Morrison called it in his 1953 The Unfinished Reformation, 46).…

Several weeks back there was a bit of a dust-up in conservative Reformed Protestant circles over the…

Tax Exemptions Protect Religious Freedom. We Should Keep Them. Richard W. Garnett, Washington Post Some Context for American’s…