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It’s silly to pretend the company president’s praise for the “biblical” family was not an attack on marriage equality.

Liberalism has many strengths. It brought God into the world. It allowed us to value the natural order and value human intellect as a way of thinking theologically. But, liberalism is a philosophy of history as progress and harmony—and that’s untrue to the nature of the Fall. Why I use the term “progressivism” instead is that progressivism is movement-based. Progressives are more communitarian, they’re not as individualistic; they have a far savvier sense that history is struggle, and that the world does not want to be changed.

Probably few who gathered to hear Bonhoeffer’s latest biographer expected to be asked to imagine themselves called by God to rise up against a regime that might be as heinous as the Third Reich—but as it turns out Metaxas is not unique among religious-right intellectuals in his use of the language of armed revolt.

In the Muslim world, pluralism collides with democracy and sovereignty, which is far more interesting and alarming than the battle lines we’ve imposed on the Middle East—of secularists versus Islamists, of free-thinking liberals versus religious autocrats.

Legitimizing questions about Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Applications are in for “.islam” and “.shia”—with some big implications.

Who is the “we” Bruni is listening to?

The first winner of the Cub Scouts’ “Bismillah” award urges the Boy Scouts to be brave.

Plus: a modest proposal for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

Dare to be bigoted.