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Bring Out the Kwanzaa Kinara
OK, the holiday is made-up. But for my family it was useful.
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Re-evangelizing New England
How church-planting and music festivals are bringing about a quiet revival.
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The Case of the Mormon Historian
What happened when Michael Quinn challenged the history of the church he loved.
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Israel’s Pork Problem
What a change to one of the most controversial laws in Israeli history could mean for the country’s Christian Arabs.
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On the Same Page
Thousands of Jews have been reading a page of Talmud a day for the last seven years. They’re almost finished. Was it worth it?
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“A Spirit of Persecution”
What the Hill Cumorah Pageant tells us about Mormonism’s past—and its present.
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Can You Be Both Mormon and Gay?
Why a religion notorious in the gay community might be “evolving.”
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Saturday’s Warriors
How Mormons went from beard-wearing radicals to clean-cut conformists.
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Hemings and Jefferson Together Forever?
Troubling cases of Mormon “proxy sealing.”
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Is Mormonism Still Racist?
Comments from a BYU professor stir up a troubling past.
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From the Book of Mormon to The Book of Mormon
What the South Park guys, Tony Kushner, and so many others get wrong about Mormons.
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A Shunning in Seattle
A powerful megachurch’s harsh tactics raise questions about how much control churches should have over their members’ lives.
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The Rise of the Singing Christmas Tree
Hundreds of people! Thousands of lights! Flying angels! Fireworks! Sequins! The megachurch extravaganzas explained.
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Sign Here, and Here, and Here
FAMiLY LEADER's "Declaration of Dependence" is just one in a long line of evangelical manifestos.
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Sympathy for the Pharaoh
If God hardened Pharaoh's heart, was it fair to punish him?
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Rent-a-Grave
With land a valuable resource, Greece requires the recycling of cemetery space. It's a ghastly business.
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Will the Great American Rabbi Please Stand Up?
Jewish America seems to have lost its chance to foster home-grown rabbinical sages.
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