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The Americans Season Finale: Teach Your Parents Well

Television's best show explores faith, family ,identity, and the spectre of Reagan's ‘evil empire'

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2 Steps Forward, 3 Steps Back, 1 Step Sideways: The Chaotic Progression of...

Over the last year or two, LGBTQ issues have erupted with increasing frequency at evangelical...

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The Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George

From my vantage point across the aisle and a few rows back, I studied Cardinal...

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Hicksters, Stickers, and Affection: Why I Left D.C. for the Family Farm

Last November, I returned to my family’s farm in New Hampshire to celebrate Thanksgiving and...

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Ministries of Presence: A Report from Nepal

American Christians in earthquake-ravaged Nepal—but not evangelism as usual.

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Going Negative: Traditionalist Churches Gang Up on ‘Progressive Christianity’...

Hating on other Christians will surely drive new members into our congregation.

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What the Numbers Don’t Tell Us: Religion Is a Lived, Shifting Experience

Having spent most of the last two years in conversation with Nones, seekers, doubters, and...

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Critiques, Questions, and Sauve-qui-Peut: Looking Toward the Future of...

The terrain is indeed shifting as the latest Pew survey results suggest, but it’s not...

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Swimming Against the Tide: Religious (Non) Affiliation Might Not Mean What...

If religious kitsch is a guilty pleasure, one of my favorite indulgences is a graphic...

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Simple Questions: The Why, What, and How of Changing American Christianities

Dear friends and colleagues on the godbeat: You’ve heard it before: liberal churches are dying...

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American Religion By the Numbers: A Pew Survey Roundup

SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE: RELIGIOUS (NON) AFFILIATION MIGHT NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS...

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To Let It Go and So To Find A Way: U2, (A)Live with Grief and Grace

“Comfort me.” “COMFORT ME.” “COMFORT ME! COMFORT ME!! COMFORT ME!!!” Bono is standing at the...

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Transitions: Caitlyn Jenner, Gender Identity, and Christians Behaving Badly...

Emma Green has a solid piece at The Atlantic detailing religious reaction to Caitlyn Jenner’s...

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Seattle ‘CultureMaker’ Nathan Marion: We Need New Abbeys in America to Foster...

Editor’s Note: Among the trends that bear watching throughout America’s evolving Christian landscapes is a holistic rethinking...

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Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ Reversal is Evangelicalism’s Tipping Point

That crashing sound you heard Monday morning was waves of change breaching the levees of the evangelical...

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The ‘Charlie Charlie Challenge’ and Teenage Yearning for Supernatural Encounters

In May, four girls at a Colombian high school experienced a supernatural encounter so profound...

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Data-Mining Denominations: Same-Sex Marriage Edition

We’re running out of Mondays before the Supreme Court hands down its ruling on the...

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The Accidental Worshiper: Following the Music

This is the first in a series—part of an ongoing RD initiative focused on the changing face...

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The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia

My childhood home was equidistant between two of the Grateful Dead’s regular Bay Area venues:...

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Data-Mining The Denominations: The Southern Baptists in Four Charts

If you’ve been following the story of Christianity in the United States with any degree of...

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