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A complement to Gary Laderman’s column on the gun-as-sacred-object: scholar Lou Ruprecht’s scriptural encounter with the Second Amendment and the NRA in a gun debate gone astray.

The Promise Keepers have gone from hugging and shedding tears to doing battle for the Christian Right.

When Pope Benedict XVI visits the United States for the first time this month, the media will tread lightly.

Megachurch Pastor Rod Parsley calls for America to “fulfill its divine purpose” by destroying “this false religion.”

The questions were seemingly meant to induce affirmations from Democrats that God is indeed mysterious and awesome…

What Obama did say was that guns and religion are best assessed as morally neutral, until we see what people choose to do with them.

Can a man have multiple wives? Do different positions bear spiritual fruit? What is the meaning of orgasm? Religious traditions thrive on intimacy with and access to the body, its experience of suffering, sorrow, and sickness, as well as rapture, delight, and bliss. A romp through America’s favorite, most taboo subject.

With its new Reform Divorce site, a Men’s Rights Activist group intends to lobby for two new radically conservative divorce provisions.

Imposing our own notion of the religion/secular divide on the international scene fosters misunderstanding.

McCain corroborates Obama’s Sociology of Religion 101 insights—all politicians do…