Seminaries and divinity schools are in a period of unprecedented experimentation. Schools are merging; or joining together, across religious lines, in interfaith consortiums; or moving online.
Scalia death a blow to Obamacare contraception challengers
Christian groups asking the U.S. Supreme Court to exempt them from the requirement to provide insurance covering contraception under President Obama’s healthcare law face an uphill battle following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death last month.
Is Palm Sunday a rainforest killer?
For years, Latin Americans were stripping the landscape bare to sell palm leaves to U.S. florists and churches, until an eco-friendly Guatemala program turned things around.
White Americans, this is what it feels like to be a minority
In this political season, a fear, masked by a sometimes openly raging anger directed toward an array of minorities, is the fear of a white majority that is thoroughly panicked by the awareness that it is on a slow but…
The Religious Right is in a battle for souls, and it’s losing to Donald Trump
What’s the mood among influential Christians? Sad!
The moral vision of Bernie Sanders
Like a growing number of Americans, Bernie Sanders does not define himself within clear religious categories, even as he stays engaged with questions of morality and a just society.
The threat of ‘all or nothing’ demands
Legislative and administrative exemptions designed to protect religious liberty without harming other important interests should be encouraged.
The LGBT politics of Christian colleges
At many evangelical universities, you can be gay — as long as you don’t “act” it.
We need to restore the Supreme Court to full strength
The prospect of a 4-4 decision on very important Supreme Court cases is unacceptable for any longer than is absolutely necessary.