One of my friends sent me a Q&A about "religious ethics" that she wanted me to answer for a research project she's doing in our field.  I answered them, obviously in inadequate, overly terse and...

I think this is true--there are deeper structures than particular individuals and personalities shaping our current situation.

“The sources of angst vary from country to country, but at root...

When Isabel Sawhill at Brookings confesses that she has become “wobbly” on the neoliberal paradigm, things are getting interesting, at last.

The new spiritual consumerism! Except it’s not really...

Elaine Kamarck, a long-time Democratic party intellectual, has a new little op-ed out from Brookings.  She's arguing for an increased role for what she calls "peer review" in the Democratic...

Read this piece on the simple randomness of who lived and who died.  

 A person born on September 11, 2001 would now be eighteen.  More than a fifth of America--about 65 million people--are...

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Here's a fascinating story of how the Franco-African Roman Catholic church came to terms with decolonialism, which meant much more than simply rejecting direct rule from France, but was...

Much like the Voynich Manuscript, which is so much of a media sensation that the media has now taken to publishing pieces about the sensationalism of the sensationalism, reporters evidently want you...

This is a terrific piece by a friend of mine, Darren Dochuk.  Darren is an historian of American Christianity, which can sound pretty norm-core and boring, but it isn't.  And Darren makes it...

Asma Uddin has recently published a nice book entitled When Islam is Not a Religion (link here, nice podcast about it here), a book discussing the many attacks from the right on Islam as a...