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1. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Casper ter Kuile

   How religion can help you have better sex (seriously!) (opens the original)

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   Turns out, those sages of yore were just as horny as we are — and understood the role of pleasure in a spiritual life. “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!” No, that isn’t the latest Heated Rivalry fanfiction — it’s the opening line of a 2,000-year-old erotic poem. Yes, in the middle of the Hebrew Bible, a text that has so often been weaponized to shame sexual desire, there is a collection of straight-up filth: As a gay kid growing up in the 1990s, sex was far from holy. Indeed, it was

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2. Article · Jul 14, 2026 · Casper ter Kuile

   How singing with other people can help you move through grief and despair (opens the original)

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   When you feel terrible — or just numb — singing can be easier than talking. I used to think I could change the world. More than that: because I could, I felt the responsibility to do it. I was 22 when I helped lead a delegation of young people to the United Nations. There, we pressured presidents and prime ministers to reduce carbon emissions, hoping to prevent the horrors of rising sea levels and catastrophic heat waves. Strangely, although I was immersed in the distressing climate science and

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