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Columnist Dan Gilgoff, in reporting on the conflict between gays and ex-gay ministries, forgets that there are, in fact, happy, healthy, gay Christians.

While it is tempting to dismiss professional athletes as overpaid ingrates, how many of us have to endure what amounts to 70 car accidents each Sunday? If Michael Vick were a janitor, he’d be back at work by now.

Mortgage companies, the New York Times reports, make money by keeping people in delinquency. In this way, the minorities who were targeted for subprime loans in the first place are being exploited a second time.

In his newest book Robert Wright charts a path between atheism and belief, busting religion myths as he goes: Jesus did not preach universal love; Jews didn’t start out as monotheists; and the origin of religion had nothing to do with morality.

Results of a study on child abuse show more than thirty thousand instances of abuse by clergy and government educators.

In this 1908 retelling of the gospels, Jesus travels to India, Persia, and Greece, preaching of a “cord of love” that binds all humanity. What does The Aquarian Gospel have to teach us about Christianity, New Age religion, and the birth of the culture wars?

When compromise at all costs is the rule, and anyone who wants to help the poor is labeled a radical, it’s time to quit looking for middle ground.

For viewers whose search for meaning is not confined to institutional religion, the television landscape abounds with religious and moral themes. And whether it’s euthanasia, polygamy, angels, demons, or clerics doing cameos, treatment of religion on the small screen is often surprisingly sophisticated.

Last week’s corruption bust is not the tale of a uniquely Jewish form of organized crime, a “Kosher Nostra,” but a sordid chapter in a broadly human tragedy—albeit with a lot of local color.

Politics at this level is a blood sport, not a seminar, and the president seems a bit behind on his combat training.