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Outrage is often the first step to enlightenment, compassion, and justice, but apparently not in New Haven; a tour through recent stories on gay marriage, offensive art, and religious kitsch.

During the recent “Compassion Forum,” Obama challenged the American religious community…

Get ready for more of the hoary old “raving evangelicals” vs. “atheist scientists” cant. Note to scientists: This is no time for smugness.

An inflated sense of purpose seems to be part of the American genome…

Affordable in-home paternity tests may spark more questions than answers, including “Do we know enough about DNA to process the results over Pop-Tarts?”

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.

Earth Day, 2008: An American Muslim reflects on the ethic of environmental protection in Islam.

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.