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"If you focus too much on only a personal relationship being the core tenet of your faith, then it means that you're more easily able to marginalize topics like human suffering, which in some cases is spurred by climate change. We are embodied creatures in this planet, so let's live like we are," said Sean Lyon. Credit: Meera Subramanian

Young Evangelicals Fighting for Climate Action

For students at this top evangelical college, loving God means protecting creation. That includes dealing with the human sources of climate change.

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The Schism In the Sky: How the Eclipse Divided America

Madras, Oregon.

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The Ultimate To-Do List

An excerpt from Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments.

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KtB Wants You…To Write About the Eclipse

The total solar eclipse passing over the continental U.S. this August 21st is the first to do so in 99 years, but American eclipse stories go back much farther than…

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Family Lines

Chasing ghosts in Greece.

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Epiphany’s Choice

To honor in reverence, or destroy in fear?

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Lay Down Your Weary Tune

My fear is generalized. This is now my country’s fear as well.

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We’ve Got the Torch Now

The small rural town where I went to high school had a newspaper and I looked on its classified section last year and there were three jobs.  I’m not going…

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Notes from DC

…immediately following the 2016 Presidential election.

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Remember That the Devil Is Quite A Gentleman

There’s a long history of calling people the devil. It doesn’t usually turn out well.

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Aleppo Is Us

With the recent “What is Aleppo?” gaffe by Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, the news cycle has long moved on from the child whose image quickly became an icon of…

Drawn by a sixth-grader at South Windsor Elementary School

Holding Light

Waging peace on terror, with refugees.

Photograph by the author.

Silver Bells

Reading The Polar Express in the wake of mass shootings.

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Breaking Up With White Jesus

It’s December of 2014. 2am, 3am, 4am, 5am, I thrash and turn over in bed and click on my phone, know I should not click on my phone, click on…

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Defying the Certainty of the Christian Right

Earl Taylor, with his white hair, lean figure, and suit, has a mildly aristocratic appearance. He carries himself and speaks in a mild manner–admittedly, there is also something of the…

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Dear Cruelest Month: Spring Isn’t Arab

Once upon a time we lay in bed trying to imagine what shelling sounded like. We being me and the man I loved. Ah, those early days of my Orientalism…

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The Perfect Victim

Have you noticed those suing against same-sex marriage are all extraordinarily nice?

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Sea Accounting

Navigating fear, family, and Syria’s failing insurrection.