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Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...

God knows, evangelicals are more science-friendly than you think

Ferguson turmoil draws Billy Graham’s rapid response team

ISIS: Responding to its spiraling evil

By David Gushee Follow David: @dpgushee The brutality theatre that the terrorist group known as Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) is applying to the powerless victims in its grasp has been truly breathtaking to behold. Some fine reporting, notably by Graeme…

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Few things invite the kind of eyes-shut-grab-the-mic-and-bang-out-a-couple-of-quick-bars-of-life-is-a-highway quite like spending two weeks snowed-in under a suffocating pile of things entitled something along the lines of “5 ways to tell if your dog is hiding an addiction from whatever Harry Potter character…

Before I go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom about life and time

In residency, there’s a saying: The days are long, but the years are short. In neurosurgical training, the day usually began a little before 6 a.m., and lasted until the operating was done, which depended, in part, on how quick…

Scouting for tolerance

In June of 2013 the Boy Scouts of America announced a policy change. The organization would reverse a longstanding policy and allow openly gay scouts to participate in the organization. I wrote then that the BSA’s attempt to please everybody…

Baptist women say faith deepened as pregnant ministers

By Jeff Brumley The first time around as a pregnant Baptist minister, Stacy Cochran Nowell harbored worries few other moms-to-be are likely to share. Chief among them was that older church members might object to the sight of an expectant…

Baptists, Presbyterians make room for Anglicans at Calvinist confab

By Bob Allen Calvinist-inclined Baptists and Presbyterians attending this year’s upcoming national conference of the Gospel Coalition are adding a place at the table for a new constituency: conservative Anglicans who have broken with the Episcopal Church. Joining mainstays like…

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone

God knows, evangelicals are more science-friendly than you think

Ferguson turmoil draws Billy Graham’s rapid response team

ISIS: Responding to its spiraling evil

You too.

Before I go: A Stanford neurosurgeon’s parting wisdom about life and time

Baptist women say faith deepened as pregnant ministers

Baptists, Presbyterians make room for Anglicans at Calvinist confab

Church loses tax exemption after opening club for beach partiers

Journalist blasted for lying in confessional, recording priests’ answers

Jeb Bush brings on influential evangelical figure

Muslims were part of America’s story long before the republic began

Signs Of ‘Religious Psychosis’ Experts REALLY Want You To Recognize

Pro-Palestinian interfaith coalition protests Christian Zionist summit

‘Standing For Human Dignity’: Faith Leaders Urge Officials To Protect Midterm Elections

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The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone