religious pluralism

Tyler Mayfield offers a fresh look at Cain, Ishmael, and Esau.

How my attraction to other religions deepened my love of my own

Can Christianity make universal claims without being exclusivist?

"Buddhism has not just provided the flashlight with which I have discovered what was in the Christian basement. It has also added to that basement."

One baker doesn’t want to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. Another baker doesn’t want to decorate a cake with the words “God hates gays.” Are the two cases comparable?

The differences may be obvious, but they’re also complex.

Margaret Grubiak thinks elite university chapels have become white elephants. But some of them are cash cows—and all of them still speak.

Here in rural Georgia, it's hard to miss a monk in saffron robes walking through Wal-Mart. But we don't know what to think about him, so we don't.

Rowan Williams favors a kind of secularism that requires an honest broker to mediate and manage genuine difference, rather than one that aspires to little more than maximized choice.

Joshua Dubler shows up at a maximum-security prison as a budding ethnographer. He becomes a man captured by friendships.

Americans have become accustomed to picking and choosing among religious traditions and practices. But some have taken religious pluralism in a deeper and more radical direction.