June 2015

A decades-old debate continues to simmer at the intersection of religion and lexicography: When is it fair to apply the word “fundamentalism” outside of its original Protestant Christian context?Today, "fundamentalism" is often applied as a…

I often tell my Conservative friends that their belief in an infallible Bible is just as subjective as my subjective belief in a wandering Bible. But they just can't see it. They keep shouting the same refrain that their…

The rise of religious fundamentalism and ultra-orthodoxy has taken much of the West by surprise. But the shock is not limited to the world's wealthy democracies. For most of the 20th century, secular and generally left-wing proponents of…