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A belief or action is “extreme” not because of its putative disconnection from the mainstream; rather, it is “extreme” because of the way it pushes or takes the logic of a “mainstream” belief.

Those who run the recently-opened 9/11 Memorial Museum refuse to consider changes to a controversial film that some say could incite hatred. They might take a page from the Holocaust Museum’s controversy nearly two decades ago.

An interview with the outgoing president of The Interfaith Alliance.

An essay ignored by the Vatican since the 70s, translated into english for the first time, shows that the Catholic Church can ordain women.

In the wake of the tragic massacre at UCSB on Friday night in which Elliott Rodger murdered 6 people and injured 13 more before taking his own life, much has been written about Rodger’s motivations…

Mark Schaming is the director of the New York State Historical Museum in Albany. Soon after September 11, 2001, he organized an exhibition called “The World Trade Center,” the first such visual…

Over the past few months, Louisiana Governor Piyush “Bobby” Jindal has been making aggressive moves to prepare himself for a 2016 presidential bid. In addition to rejecting a Medicaid expansion (and…

In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscript—what he described in Nazarenus as “a Mahometan Gospel, never before publicly made known among Christians.”…