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“They believe in some strange religion, not Islam,” a Muslim refugee from the Iraq city of Ramadi told me when I talked with him recently in a camp near the Kurdistan capital of Erbil in Northern Iraq…

Picking on commentary from WND (formerly WorldNet Daily) is about the easiest job in all of blogging. There is always something egregiously awful to take apart there. You could spend your whole career…

We reported last week on the UN Security Council briefing convened by American and Chilean diplomats to discuss the anti-LGBT brutality of ISIS. In an Advocate commentary last week, Jean Freedberg of…

Responding to Pope Francis’ announcement that during the upcoming “Year of Mercy” all priests would be empowered to forgive women who have had abortions and return them to full communion with the…

UPDATE: Following this morning’s hearing, Kim Davis has been taken into custody by U.S. Marshals for contempt of court. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, not known for shying away from…

Is there a prize for most offensive conversion narrative?

The headlines are everywhere—Pope Francis says priests can forgive women who’ve abortions—and the implications are unmistakable: cool Francis is once again breaking with tradition on hot button issues…

In the 1970s, conservative evangelicals declared themselves defenders of the American way and protectors of the moral majority. Thus began a long and bitter culture war for the soul of America. Among…

New York Times science columnist George Johnson had the epistemological grumps last week, about what he titled “The Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths.” It once seemed inevitable that science would…

Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who continues to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples despite the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear her case, says she is obeying “God’s…