Leaving the Witnesses can be a delicate, protracted affair. Not everyone can quietly disappear, like I did.

From Buddhism to science to the end of life.

Purchasing the little nativity scene convinced me that I had unfinished business with the religion of my youth.

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

An Excerpt From Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free

Parsing the politics of Luverne, Alabama.

The sacramental stand-up sermon we all need right now.

#MeToo moments in Buddhism and psychotherapy.

A harmless rodent with vast existential consequences.

Whose job is it, anyway?

A Wrinkle in Time’s Unified Theory of Love

Dust to dust, the stuff of us, before and after life.

Spoiler alert: He’s not an only child.

We did not do therapy. “Psychoheresy,” some called it.

The niece is the only child he knows.