How the new His Dark Materials spinoff series explains the book-banning wars
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy was one of the most beloved children’s book series of the 2000s — and ...
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Obsessing about being a good person can backfire. There’s a better way.
Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s ...
AI can write you a new Bible. But is it meaningful?
What happens when an AI expert asks a chatbot to generate a sacred Buddhist text?In April, Murray Shanahan, a research ...
The new pope has strong opinions about AI. Good.
Just days after the new pope, Leo XIV, took up his position as head of the Catholic Church, he started ...
The religious right just suffered a rare setback in the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court announced on Thursday that it is unable to decide a case asking it to force states to ...
What Pope Leo XIV’s history can tell us about his papacy
Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Robert Prevost, is the first American pontiff. He was elected on Thursday, less than ...
The religious right is headed toward a revolutionary victory in the Supreme Court
During an oral argument on Wednesday, the Supreme Court appeared all but certain to divide along party lines in a ...
Will the next pope be liberal or conservative? Neither.
If there’s one succinct way to describe Pope Francis’s stewardship of the Catholic Church over the last 12 years, it ...
Pope Francis is dead. The Church must now confront an uncomfortable truth.
If you wrote a novel in which the first Latin American pope died on Easter Monday — which happened to ...
The playbook Trump is following to deport protesters
The Trump administration has been arresting and detaining protesters who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. They have justified the action by ...
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