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Religious life

The Number That No Man Could Number

Black America’s civil war over gay rights

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The Watchmen

What became of the Christian intellectuals?

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Injustice Delayed

"The overall impression I came away with from the court decision was that Jarvis Jay Masters was considered a low-grade person who only deserved a low-grade trial. It’s certainly what he got."

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Bird in a Cage

There are two things I think about nearly every time I row out into San Francisco Bay. One is a passage from Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain, in which he…

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L’amour filial

By Charlotte Brontë, from an essay written while she was a twenty-six-year-old student at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. The essay, dated August 5, 1842, was discovered last year in…

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Darling

A middle-aged woman in a brown wool suit tapped my shoulder after mass. She knew my name. She said she had read an interview I gave to an online magazine…

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Blinded by the Right?

How hippie Christians begat evangelical conservatives

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The drunk’s club

A.A., the cult that cures

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Shalom on the Range

In search of the American Crypto-Jew

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