Science
Essay
The Troubling Push to Deregulate Homeschooling
When my mother pulled me out of kindergarten to homeschool, it wasn’t a religious choice. We were an average Christian family, casually attending a non-denominational …
By Caitlin G. Townsend
Report
Ebola and U.S. Hospital Chaplains: A (Deliberately) Untold Story
In August, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, medical missionaries who were serving in Liberia, arrived at Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital. The facility was the …
By Betsy Shirley
Essay
The Sources of Creationism’s Disjointed Science
Once upon a time, in the West, sacred history, human history, and natural history were one. The Hebrew Bible, refracted through the prism of the …
By Elizabeth Yale
Report
Passages: A Glimpse into the Hobby Lobby Family’s Bible Museum
On a humid afternoon in early July, I pulled into the parking lot of a nondescript warehouse just off Highway 65 in Springfield, Missouri. Flanked …
By Rachel McBride Lindsey
Report
The Religious Roots of the Wilderness Act
When Howard Zahniser was drafting the Wilderness Act—which marks its 50th anniversary today—he confided to a colleague that he wished he were writing poetry instead. …
By Michael Schulson
Essay
Why Anti-Vaccination Movements Can Never Be Tamed
In Victorian England, nearly a century after the physician Edward Jenner had shown that exposure to the cowpox virus, or vaccinia, conferred immunity to smallpox, …
By Elizabeth Yale
Essay
Hobby Lobby, Wheaton College, and a New Religious Order
Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court handed down its much-awaited decision in Hobby Lobby, holding that closely held business corporations are “persons” endowed with religious …
By Sarah Barringer Gordon and Nomi Stolzenberg
Essay
What the Show Cosmos Gets Wrong about Religion—and Science
In its third episode, titled “When Knowledge Conquered Fear,” the new Cosmos reboot, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, tells the story of the discovery …
By Elizabeth Yale
The States Project
Maine: A Spiritual Frontier Opens for Business
A Spiritual Frontier Opens for Business.
By Brook Wilensky-Lanford
Review
Darwin, Hitler, and the Hijacking of Evolutionary Theory
Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory By Robert J. RichardsThe University of Chicago Press, 2013 Biology is not ideology. But with evolution, …
By Michael Schulson