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Does Rep. Wilson’s outburst before the president signal something deeper about the state of our national rituals?

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

Obama’s proposal is too timid: How about asking religious groups to really step up?

We have become used to the protections intended for real people being extended instead to corporations. How this happened, and what it means for the possibility of health care reform.

Is Universal Coverage the only moral touchstone in health care reform? Religious progressives need to think again.

The religious right will back county clerks that refuse to perform wedding ceremonies after June 17…

The conservatives who were frightened by Obama’s speech to schoolchildren weren’t afraid he’d say something radical—quite the contrary—they were afraid that the president would sound moderate and human. The real question, why did they buy the fear? is impossible to answer without considering religion.

The New Atheists, armed with swords and cudgels, are still doing old-fashioned battle with religion; but they haven’t noticed that the skirmish may have passed them by. Are religion and science poised for a truce?

Carlene Bauer lost her faith, but it wasn’t because she was raised on the far-right fringe of fundamentalist religion—it was more that she thought God deserved better than the clichés of modern evangelicalism.

Forget what you learned about myth from Joseph Campbell—this death panel rumor is the real deal: values masquerading as truth, all in service of one heckuva group fantasy.