Bible

When the director Roman Polanski sexual assaulted a 13-year-old, was it only US law he violated?

Conservatives are fond of using scripture to support their arguments, and they are great at tapping the emotional heart of a story. Liberals, not so much.

Americans wrestle with the biblical text, but there is no one correct way to read scripture.

Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor, for yours is the Kingdom of God.” GOP leaders immediately label this socialism.

Would Christian employees be comfortable being forced by their employers to say Happy Hanukah or Happy Kwanzaa or Happy Ramadan to their customers?

In his newest book Robert Wright charts a path between atheism and belief, busting religion myths as he goes: Jesus did not preach universal love; Jews didn’t start out as monotheists; and the origin of religion had nothing to do with morality.

In this 1908 retelling of the gospels, Jesus travels to India, Persia, and Greece, preaching of a “cord of love” that binds all humanity. What does The Aquarian Gospel have to teach us about Christianity, New Age religion, and the birth of the culture wars?

The best-selling scholar says that the Bible is more violent than the Qur’an, that religious fundamentalism is political, and more.

A recent statement by a Vatican astronomer opens a theological can of worms…

A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold…