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In the News: Secularism, Nationalism, Pastafarianism, and more!

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In the News – Heathens, Hymns, and Holy Men

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In the News: Racism, Ramadan, Romanian Witches and more!

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In the News: Lindsey Graham, Garland, TX, God’s Plaintiff, and more!

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In the News: The Crusades, Anti-Vaxxers, Chocolate Gods, and more!

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Our Daily Links: While You Were Eating Fruitcake Edition

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Worth the Wait: It may have taken 1,500 years but the Talmud finally has an index.
Early Adopters: I’ve long said that religion and porn are the two first groups to adopt new technologies. In “Christianity and the Future of the Book” at The New Atlantis Alan Jacobs writes, “Religious communities have been the inventors, the popularizers, or the preservers of technologies.” (Jacobs doesn’t say anything about porn, alas.)
The Vatican has released its annual report on deaths of mission workers around the world. South America and Africa are highest on the list of dangerous continents.
Red Kettle Menace: The Salvation Army does great work but tis the season to hear more about their prayer-for-assistance policies, in this instance, regarding same-sex couples. (TR friend and co-conspirator Diane Winston has written about the Salvation Army in Red Hot and Righteous: the Urban Religion of the Salvation Army. Hear her talk about it here, in a 2009 interview with NPR.) Continue Reading →