science and religion

When parents choose spiritual healing over medical care for their ailing children…

What sort of religious institution honors a “run-like-hell Catholic” and the first Asian-American woman Rabbi, among others?

Something is missing from the world of instant communicating, microblogging, and social media: the body. There’s no face-to-face in Facebook, and no turning back. Are we becoming a network of phantoms?

Activists and advocates have launched an initiative to further the understanding of the role of religion and spirituality in mental health. Conferences next month will bring clergy and mental health workers together to break new ground.

Between sin and science, religious supporters of needle exchange programs confront opposition.

What the science of homosexuality tells us—and what it doesn’t.

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?

Biochemist and Geneticist Arri Eisen introduces a new column on the intersection of science and belief.

Evangelical voters are defying old assumptions, and expanding their agenda.

Science education suffers when we rip it from its ethical, real-life context and attempt to shape it into a collection of value-free information.