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How Black Lives Matter Can Get Religion
Here is the story that is told about religion and racial justice today: The US civil rights movement was led by black male ministers...
Contempt For Creation
Why are so many American Christians seemingly unbothered by the gutting of the institutions and policies dedicated to protecting our...
The Joyful Uselessness of Ivan Illich: Reply to Scialabba
In his essay for The Baffler, George Scialabba does a fine job summarizing Ivan Illich's most famous period of writing, from 1971 to...
Good News For Religious Pluralism....Sort of.
When your democratic republic and unchecked global, political, and ecological trends feel as though they're hurtling in chaos toward the...
Patience, Impatience, and Political Life Today
To say that 2016 was a politically tumultuous year is, at this point, to state the blindingly obvious. Sooner or later, my home country...
Defend the Vital Center
Writing shortly after the close of World War II, Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. spoke of the urgent need to defend the “vital...
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