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The Enlightenment We Need

In an era of looming climate apocalypse and aimless elites, the Enlightenment has the potential to anchor projects of social emancipation and ecological sanity

By James Chappel

November 8, 2018

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Pilgrims & Progress

John Winthrop’s famous 1630 sermon, cited as an American classic, celebrates neither rugged individualism nor American exceptionalism

By Paul Baumann

November 6, 2018

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A Failure to Communicate

In a toxic culture that scapegoats and demonizes LGBT laity and clergy, the Synod ought to have made a more decisive show of affirmation and support

By John Gehring

November 2, 2018

Bishops

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Sexuality

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Halloween and All Saints Mysteries

In entering into the mystery of all saints and all souls, we cannot be sure what we will encounter, but we embrace fear and obscurity even as we hope

By Regina Munch

November 1, 2018

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Spirituality

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Blood Types

Contrary to long-held romantic narratives, Vampires haunted the most cutting-edge social, theological, political, and medical thinking in enlightened Europe

By Regina Munch

October 31, 2018

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Our ‘Ally’ Saudi Arabia

The Khashoggi murder affords an opportunity to review the history of a diplomatic relationship based on economic expediency, not shared moral values

By Andrew J. Bacevich

October 31, 2018

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A State without Suicide

T. G. Masaryk fathered a Czech version of national socialism: a tolerant democratic party with respect for human rights.

By John Connelly

October 16, 2018

Religion

Our Myth, Their Lie

At the root of the sex abuse crisis is structure, the way church governance has calcified in past centuries; that structure has to go

By James J. Heaney

November 1, 2018

Religion

Peace on Murder Mile

Rev. Bill Shaw, a Presbyterian minister in a Catholic neighborhood of Belfast, is working to soothe generations of sectarian strife.

By Philip Metres

October 14, 2018

Culture

Haters & the Marketplace of Ideas

Hate speech is on the rise in the United States, and divisions continue to worsen. How to counter the downward drift?

By Rand Richards Cooper

November 2, 2018

Books

The Enlightenment We Need

In an era of looming climate apocalypse and aimless elites, the Enlightenment has the potential to anchor projects of social emancipation and ecological sanity

By James Chappel

November 8, 2018

Collections

The Church That Has to Come

A series of reported reflections from Rome, where bishops and young people are gathering this October to discuss the future of the church

By Griffin Oleynick

October 16, 2018