Christianity

Background Reading: Ive been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect. Im a Catholic and a conservative, in that order, which means that Im against abortion and critic…

A 19-year-old member of the choir at Swansboro United Methodist Church in North Carolina was fat-shamed by a church leader who told her she shouldn’t be wearing jean shorts with her body. Over the weekend, the singer, Jenna, went into the church’s bathroom …

From Taki to Tal R, Christianity to the Moon, our critic picks 10 unmissable shows for July and August Takis The biggest ever British exhibition for the 93-year-old Greek pioneer of sound art and electronic art, whose electro-magnetic sculptures evoke the s…

One of my favorite parts of playing Dwarf Fortress is the randomly generated legendary artifacts that my dwarves make. Usually, theyre epic pieces of armor or furniture or crafts that are decorated in brilliant gems and images from the dwarves memories. In th…

Trump deserves most of the blame for this particular uptick in gun sales. In March, he told Breitbart, I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for TrumpI have the tough people it would be very bad, very bad, if…

Its an accusation thats been around a long time. Even in ancient times, critics of Christianity noticed some parallels between Christian beliefs and pre-Christian myths. In the late second century, a pagan philosopher named Celsus charged, The Christians have…

Kate Bowler felt like her life was just beginning. At 35, she was married to the love of her life. She had a young son and a dream job as a historian of Christianity. She had written a book, Blessed, about the origins of the notion that good things happen…

But long before it was doctrinal, the veil was a lay garment. One of the oldest and most fragile objects in Veiled and Unveiled is a terra cotta statuette from Cyprus made at the end of the fourth century B.C., on loan from the Louvre, that depicts a windswep…

If there’s one thing we know about Rep. Alexandria Ocaiso-Cortez (D) it’s that she is a seasoned panderer. I can’t say that she’s an expert at it at this time due to the fact that her pandering often times ends up going horribly for her. The latest attempt w…

Pete Buttigieg, the Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has used his Christian faith as a common theme in his campaign to call out what he sees as the Christian right’s moral bankruptcy. Fellow LGBTQ Christians have backed him, calling his remarks on fai…