The Inevitable Lies of Unorthodox
Shaul Magid on Netflix’s Unorthodox A Rosh Yeshiva (Yeshiva Dean) in Jerusalem once said to me, “One of the biggest problems with the yeshiva
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MRBlog | America’s Religion Problem
By Thomas J. Whitley Emma Green’s interview of Michael Wear, the former director of Barack Obama’s faith-outreach efforts, for The Atlantic has many
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MRBlog | Sticking to Your Convictions: The Brain and Belief
By Sarah E. Rollens Most of us like to think that our worldviews result from our own careful navigation through life’s
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MRBlog | We’ve always lived in a post-truth world, Donald Trump just made it easier to recognize
By Thomas J. Whitley The commentariat is up in arms about our supposed devolution into a post-truth world. But the truth is that
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MRBlog | “Economic Terrorism” and the Rise of the Trump Regime
By Thomas J. Whitley This week Washington state Republican Senator Doug Ericksen introduced a bill intended to outlaw illegal protests, a move that
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MRBlog | On Giving Donald Trump a Chance
By Thomas J. Whitley “We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead,” Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech
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MRBlog | Is Hillary Clinton a Heretic?
By Thomas J. Whitley Hillary Clinton is a heretic. Or, at least this is what CNN’s Religion Editor Daniel Burke would have
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MRBlog | Creating Race
By Thomas J. Whitley We can definitely define the race of people. So said North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory back in May in
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MRBlog | Religious Cover for an Aspiring War Criminal
By Charles Halton On July 28, 2016 conservative evangelicalism’s most prominent ethicist threw his support behind a presidential candidate who repudiates practically
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MRBlog | Saint Donald of Trump Tower?
By David G. Hunter Last Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation Trump advisor, Rudy Giuliani, responded to questions from John Dickerson regarding
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