The day I was ordained as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), I knelt on the hard brick steps of the seminary chapel and made promises to proclaim and live out the faith ...

A decade after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Southern Baptist Convention wants to roll it back. In June, the SBC overwhelmingly voted to pass a resolution, ...

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I am currently chair of the philosophy department at the University of Utah. I have taught at “the U” for 32 years. We are a flagship but not an elite university; we admit 89 percent of applicants.

A career arguing about faith has made religious disagreement easier to understand—but outright atheism more unfathomable. Late in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Stephen Dedalus confesses his ...

Prison is a realm of extreme unknowns. A walk to the mess hall can erupt in a 10-man brawl. A sunny morning in the yard can escalate into gas canisters being fired from the watchtower. This past July, ...

I don’t exactly remember what was said right after. What my urologist said. It was early evening on July 3. I was in New Orleans supporting my wife at a reception for her nonprofit, the Black Women’s ...

I wanted to honor my daughter’s privacy about her sex life. By Kwame Anthony Appiah About a year ago, while doing some minor renovation work in my 25-year-old daughter’s bedroom closet, I stumbled ...