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Revisiting the secularization hypothesis and Alan Wolfe’s Atlantic essay.

Only when both sides of the abortion debate express their views will we find common ground. Restrained discourse helps nobody.

A recent article in Time quoting conservative Christians decrying the split in the church makes it sound as if this isn’t the normal state of things.

On Vanity Fair’s profile of the post-Roth and Bellow generation of Jewish novelists.

Why is the highest journalistic award handing out prizes for reporting on the sexual dalliances of powerful pols? And we wonder why papers are closing their doors?

A USA Today op-ed urges evangelical Christians to change the terms of the conversation with gays and lesbians. But the end goal is the same: to change the homosexual into a non-homosexual.

The word Islamophobia is used so broadly that it risks losing its meaning; fear is not the same thing as hatred.

Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett—the new atheists are often out of their depth when it comes to real engagement with religious ideas. And what if the new atheism is not so much about theology as about politics?

In the debate over what it means to be a religious progressive, the terms of the religious right have been adopted and a new way must be forged.

Obama might mention the super rich, for example.