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July 2015

July 21, 2015
The first in a series about the complicated trend of adoption in Christianity across denominations,...
July 14, 2015
Meet FaceGloria, a social networking site for Christians, where you can "Amen" instead of Like.
July 07, 2015
Segregation is what happens when we don't think about it; as white people with status...

June 2015

June 30, 2015
A Millennial "none" shares five reasons she still goes to church.
June 26, 2015
Ed Stetzer, leader of LifeWay, writes that denomination is being swept under the rug and...
June 23, 2015
Life without a smartphone means more time in traffic, fewer photos, and a strong sense...
June 15, 2015
I talk with millennial author, blogger, and minister Erin Lane about how a "piecemeal vocation"...
June 09, 2015
I talk with Willie Morris, founder of Faithbox (a Christian subscription service) about how he...
June 02, 2015
There are even evangelical climate change scientists.

May 2015

May 29, 2015
If you think that the path to the Christian era was a straightforward march from...
May 26, 2015
America is not a “Christian nation.” It is a nation full of people who were...
May 22, 2015
Writer Craig Brown of The Sound, a weekly based in Seacoast New Hampshire, sat in...
May 19, 2015
An easy career path can kill your passion--luckily, in today's economy, there are very few...
May 15, 2015
A new dating app called Collide works like Tinder...for Christians.
May 12, 2015
Faithbox founders Willie Morris and Cory Maxwell-Coghlan are quite literally selling Christianity--it costs about $25...
May 08, 2015
Anorexia mirabilis--miraculous anorexia--as experienced by a modern-day, non-Catholic woman.
May 05, 2015
Eve Tushnet and I finish a three-part conversation on Catholicism from a former Catholic and...
May 01, 2015
In 19 US states, white Christians are a minority thanks to more "nones" and rising...

April 2015

April 28, 2015
Eve Tushnet, a Catholic convert, and me, a lapsed Catholic, talk about why we *don't*...
April 24, 2015
On the Monday of Holy Week this year, several church leaders and members got together...
April 21, 2015
Eve Tushnet, a former Jewish agnostic, and I talk about why, despite being morally and
April 17, 2015
Random Christian fact of the day: the Kakure Kirishitan were secret Christians in Japan during...
April 14, 2015
Some surprising stats on today's Christian population.
April 10, 2015
Jonathan Hollingsworth lost his faith when he went on a mission to help people in...
April 07, 2015
But Hollywood ignored that. Why some Christians are up in arms about the omission of...
April 03, 2015
Why the Resurrection is still meaningful to me, even though I don't know if it's...
April 01, 2015
Looking for people who perform surprising acts of faith in the public eye has taught...

March 2015

March 30, 2015
Spoiler alert: There's a fair few.
March 27, 2015
Although Seattle's prison system imprisons youth of color at an unreasonably high rate, one youth...
March 24, 2015
Crazy Faith, an organization based in Olympia, WA, gives out free food to anyone who...
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