Science
Interview
The Intellectual Civil War within Evangelicalism: An Interview with Molly Worthen
Last month, Molly Worthen traveled to the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics to take part in a symposium for the inaugural Danforth …
By Tiffany Stanley
Essay
Radical Mission: What is Aish HaTorah Trying to Teach Young Jews?
On my first visit to Jerusalem, in the summer of 2011, I asked an ultra-Orthodox Jew for directions to the nearest ritual bath. The man …
By Michael Schulson
Report
The Vatican’s New Clothes: Very Small Embryonic-Like Cells and Faith in Evidence Not Seen
Once upon a time, and not so long ago, the scientific world beheld a new kind of cell that, when captured at just the right …
By Ann Neumann
Essay
An Evangelical Scientist’s Notes on Climate Change and Faith
Ahaze covers Colorado roads as a fire burns through thousands of acres of dead and dying trees. The fires raging through portions of the Central …
By Dorothy Boorse
The States Project
Kentucky: A Priest Takes on the Coal Industry
A Priest Takes on the Coal Industry.
By Dwight Billings, Kate Black and Kathi Kern
Excerpt
Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion
In 1904 the Quaker mystic and philosopher Rufus Jones published Social Law in the Spiritual World with a grand ambition. “The cure for skepticism,” Jones …
By Matthew S. Hedstrom
Interview
Roe v. Wade at 40: An Interview with Legal Scholar and Theologian Cathleen Kaveny
As of this month, it has been 40 years since the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion. To mark …
By Marie Griffith
Review
To Be Straight, Thin, and “Healthy”
Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical AmericaBy Lynne GerberUniversity of Chicago Press, 2011 Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed …
By Amy Frykholm
The States Project
Nevada: A Novelist Tours a Nuclear Testing Site
A Novelist Tours a Nuclear Testing Site.
By Rachel Marston
Excerpt
My Journey Toward the “New Evangelicalism”
If you’ve never changed your mind about something, you may be dead. Spiritually, intellectually, and even politically, if new facts and realities don’t ever prompt …
By Richard Cizik