christianity

How not understanding religion undermines political debate.

Adam Clayton Powell called it “cheap grace,” but we might call it “cheap atonement”: the effort by sinners to select which sins to acknowledge and repent. Pope Benedict ended his heavily protested visit to England…

This week, the world will stop turning; or at least it will for the daytime soap opera “As The World Turns,” which officially ends after 53 years. But if we remember the soap opera solely as a torrid celebration of sexual transgression—or as a frivolous time-waster for bored housewives—we miss understanding something crucial about the relationship between popular culture and morality.

The “Restoring Honor” rally may have had a lot of religious talk about freedom and rebirth, but it offered nothing new.

Hasn’t Christianity always been used to push partisan agendas?

You sure about that? Sure enough to be embarrassed when the party invites go out up yonder?

His opponents are playing Six Degrees of Bin Laden, Sherroding, smearcasting, and other ugly games.

Throughout US history the perpetrators of religiously-inspired violence have usually been white Protestant men fearful of non-Protestant communities.

or, unfriending Christianity.

It’s not Christian to refuse counseling to gays and lesbians.