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March 23, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Ted Cruz May Want the Evangelical Vote. But Evangelicals Don't Want Ted Cruz.
March 13, 2015
Mehdi Hasan
How Islamic Is the Islamic State? Not at All.
What The Atlantic got wrong about ISIS
March 6, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Catholic Church Opposes the Death Penalty. Why Don't White Catholics?
March 5, 2015
Shulem Deen
How Purim, Judaism’s Boozy Rejoinder to Halloween, Shook My Faith
On Purim, the Talmud says, “one is obligated to get so drunk that he doesn’t know the difference between Haman and Mordechai.”
March 2, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
Faith-Healer Parents Who Let Their Child Die Should Go to Jail
March 2, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Fear of a Radical Pope
The conservative struggle for the future (and past) of the Catholic church
February 26, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Making Christianity Our National Religion Would Be Terrible for Christianity
February 25, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Failure of Macho Christianity
February 22, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Is Obama a Christian or Not? It's Almost Impossible to Say.
February 18, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Is ISIS Authentically Islamic? Ask Better Questions.
The pitched battle of religious legitimacy.
February 11, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Chapel Hill Murders Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Atheists
February 9, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Conservatives Have Stooped to Defending the Horrific Crusades
February 7, 2015
Peter Manseau
The Puritans Were America's First Anti-Vaxxers
February 6, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Obama Was Right to Compare Christianity's Violent Past to the Islamic State
February 5, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Pick-Up Artists and Pro-Family Conservatives Agree: Women Only Marry for Money
February 4, 2015
Joel Gillin
Pope Francis Just Declared This Murdered Archbishop a Martyr. Reaganites Should Be Embarrassed.
February 4, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Right-Wing Politicians Exploit Their Faith for Votes, But the Solution Isn't to Separate Politics From Religion
February 4, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Libertarians Have a History of Horrifying Views on Parenting
February 4, 2015
Batya Ungar-Sargon
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Are Panicking Over Their Matchmaking Crisis
Are there too many unmarried women in the community?
January 30, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Porn Star Belle Knox Doesn't Know What Libertarianism Is. Neither Do Libertarians.

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