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When parents choose spiritual healing over medical care for their ailing children…

Any faith-based plan to combat poverty, including Obama’s, is threatening to the rights of poor LGBTQ Americans, who have always been discriminated against by religious organizations…

The “compassionate conservatism” of the Bush era was based on the idea that “sinful sloth” leads to poverty, and only religion can cure such a weakness. But the underpinning of Obama’s faith-based plan is political, not theological…

Obama pledges to remake Bush’s faith-based initiative. No one is pleased…

A controversial new ruling from an up and coming rabbi in Conservative Judaism charts a course for a greater focus on worker justice. Several of its recommendations coincide with crucial legislation favored by the American labor movement…

A leading evangelical takes on the “God is dead” crowd in the flagship journal of the conservative movement, but, our writer argues, neither theists nor atheists will win this argument until they stop misrepresenting each other and misinforming their readers…

An HBO show about vampires in the rural South depends on “viral marketing” for its buzz. But some people resent the conflation of fact and fiction that this kind of advertising entails. And what of the new religious movement known as the Vampire Community?

The story-telling tradition may be a dying art form but a performance by Mahmood Farooqi, with star-power lent by Naseeruddin Shah, made a strong case for the future.

What happens when the flagship vehicle for mainline Protestant voices starts to falter?

The initial rush of schadenfreude is gradually replaced with a genuine affection for the “good guys,” and righteous frustration at the machinations of the villains.