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The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “ The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” a timely one given the recent public tussles over the Synod of the Family…

“Would you like to appear on FOX News to talk about Israel and Palestine?” Sure, why not? If you’re going to go out, better it be in a blaze of glory. Going into a television interview, I should note…

This week I was a guest on the Center for Inquiry podcast “Point of Inquiry” to discuss, among other things, Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s appeal to evangelical Republican voters, and how Trump is…

Twenty-one religious leaders of various faiths gathered on the steps of the National Cathedral on Friday to sign a pledge for religious freedom and to call on public officials and political candidates…

Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about…

Two polls out this week show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump among likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers. A Quinnipiac University poll out yesterday has Carson leading…

The World Congress of Families, which brings together American Religious Right activists with their counterparts from around the world, gathers next week in Salt Lake City, Utah, the first time one of…

In light of this Christian Post article on the “Christian Voting Guide” put out by Rev. Steven Andrew, I was curious to see how Jesus himself would stack up against other candidates. The short answer…

Historian Heather White on the surprising role of Protestantism in the story of LGBT justice in the U.S.

As the much-ballyhooed family synod lurches into its final days, with no clear consensus on even the most mild of reforms suggested by Pope Francis and lots of backbiting and political posturing (one…