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Speaking as a parasitologist, John Shea thinks that tapeworms, rats, and – yes – even feces have something to teach us. (Just not over dinner.)

Doubt isn’t the suspension of belief, but the struggle to believe … God is not so small, nor so boring, as to be believed in easily.

It worked for Wikipedia, but can you crowdsource a saint? If you believe Sam Sawyer, that’s the only way do it.

Michael Rozier takes on obesity. It presents us with a public health quandary, he says, as well as with a window into our own judgmentalism.

…no, it’s actually a request like the title says, I promise…

Listen up, Culture — Tim O’Brien has a word of advice: nuns and sisters are already far cooler and more diverse than any of the stereotypes used to portray them.

Apologies to Charlize Theron, but Matt Spotts won’t be fixated on your latest box office blockbuster this weekend.

Taking a candid look “Bobos” in their natural habitat, Jeff Johnson exposes the hidden lies in the new HBO series Girls.

This is not another mindless click on the internet: Tim O’Brien makes good on his promise to offer some advice about how to resist acedia.

Mozart is just the 18th Century Justin Bieber. Eric Sundrup attacks his classical music loving friends and the Mozart Effect.