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October 22, 2025
John Last
The Growing Schism Between Bible Scholars and Israeli Nationalists
Experts in biblical history say Zionists and their backers are ignoring inconvenient truths about the history of Israel.
September 29, 2025
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Teacher Forced to Teach Trump Bible Reveals What Is (and Isn’t) in It
Donald Trump’s Bible includes some interesting details.
July 30, 2025
Edith Olmsted
MAGA Official Says Everyone Investigating Him for Porn Should Resign
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters had an interesting response to being investigated for accidentally playing porn at work.
January 20, 2025
Edith Olmsted
Fox News Prays Trump’s Inauguration Starts With a Grift
Donald Trump does love some product placement.
March 7, 2024
MagazineBriallen Hopper
In the Beginning, There Was Marilynne Robinson
Her new book, “Reading Genesis,” treats the Bible like a perfectly plotted historical novel.
January 14, 2021
Matthew Avery Sutton
The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America
How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection
February 27, 2018
Emily Atkin
Scott Pruitt vs. The Pope
The EPA administrator has become the de facto spokesperson for a fringe version of Christian environmentalism.
September 20, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Aronofsky’s Mother! is a Mess of Biblical Proportions
A spoiler-filled analysis of this fall’s most controversial movie.
December 30, 2015
Esther Breger
Biblical scholars are arguing about whether Eve was created from Adam’s penis bone.
March 27, 2014
Brook Wilensky-Lanford
The Big New 'Noah' Movie Is Closer to the Bible Than its Christian Critics Will Admit
March 25, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Hobby Lobby President Is Also Building a Bible Museum for Over $70 Million
January 21, 2014
Jerry A. Coyne
A Newly Deciphered Babylonian Tablet Details Blueprints for "Noah's Ark"
November 27, 2013
Jerry A. Coyne
Scientists Try to Reconcile Adam and Eve Story, Whiff. Again.
March 5, 2012
Michael Sean Winters
How the Ghost of Jerry Falwell Conquered the Republican Party
June 15, 2011
Jonathan Chait
Michelle Bachmann's Worldview
November 17, 2009
Lydia DePillis
God Squad Tries, Fails to Get Arrested at Holder's Front Door
January 22, 2007
Anthony T. Grafton
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