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By all accounts, Obama finds anti-Muslim bigotry offensive. Yet, his behavior during the current presidential campaign leaves a bad taste in the mouth of Muslims and in the mouths of us who believe that openness to the religious others is what America must mean.

The current mess in Iraq provides Obama with an opportunity to demonstrate his knowledge about the conflict and difference between Sunni and Shi’ite…

Barack Obama and John McCain will share a stage for the first time this August. Their host? Rick Warren, megachurch pastor and bestselling author—and a man with undeniable political influence.

Do bishops have too much time on their hands?

Radovan Karadzic has been hiding in plain sight as a New Age healer…

First you ordain women, then you consecrate them as bishops, and—look!—homosexual clergy want to come out of the closet: RD takes a calm look at the latest quarrel between the long-divorced Anglican Church and the Vatican…

We simply took a page from the Israeli anti-terror playbook (“hit them ten times as hard as they hit you”), and we now live in a world as permanently destabilized as the world most Israelis so grimly inhabit.

Comic about an evangelical teen suffers from some critical flaws…

What do you hope to accomplish, they ask, meeting with “those people”?

The original insider memoir, by Procopius of Caesarea, gave the word ‘byzantine’ its current meaning…