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My journey to Bosnia is deeply personal, and urgently universal. The war not only gave ammunition to radicals but it forced Muslims to question the compatibility of the West and Islam.

Foreign policy from the Book of Genesis.

A religious right favorite tests the waters.

The latest Bloggingheads.

Many analysts misunderstand the jihadi message.

Republicans attack Planned Parenthood over sex and contraception, but their base may care to differ.

The University of Notre Dame had cause for its anxiety leading up to last week’s big debate between the New Atheist polemicist Sam Harris and the evangelical philosopher William Lane Craig. It’s said that all publicity is good publicity, but one needn’t strain too hard to find an exception—least of all in the history of God debates.

The religious zealotry behind the push to defund Planned Parenthood means the budget deal is not the end of the Republican effort.

On a panel called “The Shari’ah Challenge to the West,” shari’ah myths prevail.

76-year-old never-married evangelist Bill Gothard teaches a form of wifely submission that another evangelical theologian has referred to as “the basest form of male chauvinism I have ever heard in a Christian context.” Sarah Posner had the chance to speak at length with the controversial religious leader, as well as with critics and former adherents. The picture that emerges shows the risk, and the devastation, of the abuse of spiritual authority.