The Man Behind Ben Carson’s “Secular Progressive” Fixation
A few days ago, Ben Carson sat down for an interview with Christianity Today. Speaking with...
View ArticleI Volunteer to Root Out Christian Extremism
Dear Director Comey & Secretary Johnson: Director Comey, I sympathize with the frustration you expressed...
View ArticlePerhaps Islam isn’t the Only Reason Donald Trump Didn’t Recall Muhammad Ali
After Barack Obama pointed out in a televised address on the San Bernardino shootings that...
View ArticleA Portrait of Islamophobia?
On December 5th the New York Times published an editorial on its front page for the...
View ArticlePraise the Lard This Holiday Season
In the spirit of the annual evangelical Christian push to “Keep the Christ in Christmas,”...
View ArticleFeminist Critics of Wearing Hijab in Solidarity Fall Into Same Old Traps
Though Wheaton professor Larycia Hawkins was officially reprimanded for claiming that Muslims and Christian worship the same god,...
View ArticleAmerica No Longer a Christian Nation: And Other Critical Data from 2015
After a year that included Pope Francis’ first visit to the U.S., the ongoing battle over “religious...
View ArticleGluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and...
This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage...
View Article“Paleo” is More Than a Fad Diet: Boyd Eaton’s Plan to Return to Eden
Thirty years ago, S. Boyd Eaton laid out the foundation for the Paleo diet in...
View ArticleThe Sex Scandal Following Whole Foods’ Guru
Over the holidays, the New York Times ran a punishing profile of Marc Gafni, an ex-rabbi...
View ArticleRoy Moore’s Order To Stop Gay Marriage Licenses: A Case of Flawed Theology
The order by Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore that judges stop issuing marriage licenses...
View ArticleDavid Bowie’s “Heroes,” the Soundtrack of a Spiritual Libertine
“Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It’s because I’m not quite an atheist."
View ArticleUseless and Useful: A True Sage Reviews The Tao of Happiness
Note: last November, The Cubit asked religion scholar Alan Levinovitz to review Derek Lin’s new...
View ArticleSpecial Report: Have Evangelical Colleges Succumbed to “Theological Paranoia”?
On a fall day in 1998 I sat opposite the kindly guidance counselor at my Midwestern Christian high...
View ArticleThe Porn Workaround: How Christian Sexuality Websites Avoid Sin
Last week, the evangelical-influenced Barna Group released findings from its new study, “The Porn Phenomenon,”...
View ArticleIt Depends What You Mean By “Religious”: Latest Poll Says More About Us Than...
A new poll from the Pew Research Center tells us, predictably enough, that Americans generally...
View ArticleShould Barbie Get Her Feet Washed at Church?
Did it strike anyone else as odd that the Vatican announced that women could have...
View ArticleWhat Good Is It for Union to Gain the World, But Forfeit Its Soul?
“I have never really understood exactly what a ‘liberal’ is,” Assata Shakur writes, “since I...
View ArticleWhy Belief in the Primacy of Language Leads to a Misunderstanding of Richard...
Like marijuana, affect theory seems to pop at parties.
View ArticleI’m Too Sexy for My Church: Will a Thriving Singles Scene Renew American...
As the choir rehearses before St. Monica’s Sunday evening Mass, two blond women in skinny...
View ArticleA Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die
When 15-year-old Alex Cooper came out to her devout Mormon family, they drove her from...
View ArticleHistory Channel’s “Vikings” Subverts and Supports the Violent Heathen Trope
From Blood Eagle to Blood Libel to "Wilding," myths of the violent Other have underwritten violence across centuries.
View ArticleThe Revolutionary Spirituality of ‘Hamilton’
Last month, the Broadway cast of Hamilton dazzled with a live Grammy performance, and last...
View Article“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for...
Traveling through India in the summer of 1998, I arrived with some friends at Varanasi’s...
View ArticleOf Birds and Buddhists: Wildlife Rehab, NYC Style
Spring is the busy season at the Wild Bird Fund, the only wildlife rehabilitation center...
View ArticleWhat Did ISIS Have to Do With Nice?
“He was more into women than religion,” remarked one of the neighbors of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel,...
View ArticleUnder Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana
Mother Nature may not discriminate, but people of means have a much greater capacity to withstand disaster.
View ArticleA Catholic Sister, a Buddhist Nun, and Two Rabbis: Friendship That Goes...
Four unlikely people brought together by a tiny synagogue in City Island, New York
View Article6 Years Later, Arab Spring May Only Have Just Begun
There are bright spots in the Muslim world, but a sense of ominousness is inescapable. It doesn’t just seem like the Arab Spring is over, but that the winter is here to stay.
View ArticleMoving Day: A Note from the Publisher
Editor’s note: As a number of readers have written to express confusion over the future...
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