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What does the Bible have in common with a raccoon, a Barrett M82 rifle, and square-dancing? Soon, like all these unlike things, the Bible may be part of the state of Tennessee’s official symbology…

Best-selling psychologist David P. Barash has religion all figured out: God the Father is simply the ultimate alpha male.

The Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs), a collaboration of more than a dozen NGOs, has launched a new web platform. The project’s purpose is “to monitor, analyze, and share information…

For all the ink that has been spilled in the last few years over the historic family synods convened by Pope Francis—as well as general prognosticating over the direction he will take Catholic…

You don’t know how glad I am to write a religion-and-politics piece that is not about Trump. At the same time, I have to ask: for this I dropped my usual shtick? We might well ask Bernie Sanders the…

Dear John Kasich, I’ve got four questions for you: Will you come to my Passover seder? Please? Pretty please? For real? Hear my plea, governor: I’m Jewish, and I’m supposed to lead a seder on April…

Last week was the six-year anniversary of the explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, West Virginia that killed twenty-nine coal miners. I will not soon forget that Saturday’s vigil Mass…

In September of last year, I weighed in on the debate over whether evangelicals really do support Donald Trump in large numbers. I bring it back up because, since I wrote that first piece, a spate of…

Haggard rarely name-checked the Lord in his songs, but he didn’t need to.

A closer reading of Pope Francis’ Exhortation on love in the family