Millennials, “Nones,” and Changing the Church The podcast On Being recently had an episode featuring Nathan Schneider that I found really interesting. Nathan writes about spirituality...
Michael Brown and Police Violence Two days ago, I spent my bus ride home furiously scrolling through the tweets coming out of Ferguson, Missouri,...
Sanctuary Churches House Immigrants to Prevent Deportations Rosa Imelda Robles Loreto is an undocumented immigrant scheduled to be deported today. She has a house with her...
Is Conscience Inherently Political? I promise I can write about things that aren’t conscientious objection, but last week Mary E. Hunt at Religion...
Hobby Lobby, Wheaton, and Contraception – What’s going on? You may have heard that last Monday the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby, finding that the...
Reacting to Hobby Lobby Haven’t read the decision yet so can’t give any real analysis, but here’s some initial ponderings from Twitter. It...
Questioning the Court Today marks the beginning of a week of court-watching – the Supreme Court is expected to hand down several...
Spiritual but Not Religious but Religiously Political A few weeks ago I went to a masterclass with Simon Glendenning about what he called the “Three Cultures of...
Trigger Warnings, Academia, and Emotions Earlier this week the New York Times wrote an article about college students seeking trigger warnings on course content,...
Quick Link: Who’s Religiously Persecuted Around the World? The Pew Research Center released a chart yesterday on rates of religious harassment around the world: I’ve been reading...