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A four-day conference convened by the Gay Christian Network is under way in Houston. The Advocate’s current print issue includes a photo essay including interviews with LGBT Muslims, featuring the…

Reading between the hashtags as Twitter responds to the Oregon standoff.

Even if you’re morally opposed to abortion, are you morally obligated to support the Hyde Amendment and related laws that seek to limit abortion for poor women? That’s the question at the center of…

What does it mean that a quarter of all Americans “describe their religion as ’ nothing in particular’ ”? In her newest book, The Nones Are Alright: A New Generation of Seekers, Believers and Those in…

I have a theory: New Year’s resolutions have nothing to do with the turn of the calendar year. There’s a much stronger force at play: that, every December, America collectively visits its family…

Several days ago, before the Saudi government’s execution of prominent Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr took tensions between Riyadh and Teheran to a new high, a reader emailed me a deceptively…

Jesuit Reverend Rick Curry died in late December at age 72 after an extended illness. A pioneer in disability activism (he was born without a right forearm), he blended his faith with a love of…

Over the holidays, the New York Times ran a punishing profile of Marc Gafni, an ex-rabbi who reinvented himself as a New Age spiritual leader. A founder of the Center for Integral Wisdom and organizer…

The words and deeds of those in the U.S. who oppose abortion have perhaps never been as fevered or their consequences as severe as they were in 2015. At the beginning of the year, the new Congress…