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Soon will be a campaign trail issue for the GOP.

“Christianity is not supposed to make you secure. Christianity is supposed to give you the courage to walk into an insecure world knowing that you’re not alone and to embrace the radical insecurity. If you’ve got to spend your time proving that you’re better than someone else—males are better than females, whites are better than blacks, heterosexuals are better than homosexuals—you’re always building yourself up by pushing somebody else down. But, you shouldn’t need to build yourself up unless you’re radically insecure. Religion feeds into that radical insecurity with triumphalism—ours is the only religious route you can take to get to God. That’s a really strange idea.”

Birth control bans and religious liberty.

Trying to find the anti-Romney.

In light of recent events in the small Israeli town of Beit Shemesh, many in the modern Jewish world have argued the haredim (ultra-Orthodox) have crossed a line.

Sex, secularism, and Islamists.

Santorum banking on the Duggars.

Sociologists often talk about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar. I’d be happy if readers came away from the book seeing dieting as more complicated, and more problematic, than they had previously thought and efforts at sexual reorientation more akin to popular self-help culture than they would assume. If evangelical readers found Christian practices somewhat strange and non-Christian readers found them oddly familiar, that would be great too.

The mega-pastor’s views on evolution don’t seem to be evolving.

Our religious traditions remind us that it’s often those at the edges who speak the truth most clearly.