John the Baptist
How My Southern Baptist Minister Mother Explained Her First Christmas to My Orthodox Jewish Son
I am a Jew by choice, I was raised a Muslim, and my mother is an ordained Baptist minister. This year, for the first time ever, my mother decided to put up a Christmas tree.
Separating Jesus the Man From the Myth
Reza Aslan’s study finds a very different Jesus of Nazareth than the one centuries of dogma has taught us about. For one thing, he’s much more human.
What Do John Boehner and an Ugly Root Vegetable Have in Common?
House Speaker John Boehner is mocked as having ‘Jerusalem Syndrome’ while a gnarly root vegetable got misnamed as ‘Jerusalem artichoke.’
