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The theory that access to the internet will be the undoing of organized religion has resurfaced. But do the data show anything like this?

As if the whole Louie Giglio inaugural preaching debacle weren’t enough to sour many in on the religiosity of the American political process, conservative evangelical shock preacher Mark Driscoll stirred a hornet’s nest of Christianist hate and Christian outrage with the following…

In a recent essay Marcia Pally argues that a generation of “new evangelicals” have “left the right.” But left it for what?

It’s the hierarchy and killing, not just the discrimination.

I have a better idea.

A recent piece by novelist Nathaniel Rich focused on eccentric Japanese researcher Shin Kubota, who studies the “immortal jellyfish.” But what are we after when we seek immortality? And does this quest tell us more about us than the natural world?

On December 15, 2012 we lost a giant in the field of intellectual reflection on religion and social justice. I speak of Beverly Wildung Harrison, longtime professor of social ethics and feminist theory at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

Fifteen years, according to new evidence in Los Angeles Catholic abuse scandal.