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At a moment when the pope is cracking down on apparitions and limiting Marian devotion why this apparition, and not other literally countless reports that pop up in the news every year?

The idea of martyrdom hasn’t been in very good shape lately. One common usage of it—“I’ll not be made a martyr!”—refers to the prospect of somewhat tragic but mostly useless suffering, perhaps in the service of a delusional cause, religious or otherwise…

A Presbyterian pastor can be a thief or an egotistical jerk, but not gay?

It’s not outlandish to see theological meaning in the drive to slash government spending for human services if we accept some version (no matter how secularized) of the concept of original sin.

At the first anniversary of health care reform legislation, an unprecedented attack is spreading across the nation to restrict or even ban insurance coverage of abortion for millions of women.

Ordinary Cheddarheads are possessed of hope in a way that is if not explicitly theological, then at least well-explained by it.

Broadway musical puts LDS literalism under scrutiny.

After years of anticipation, The Book of Mormon—the Broadway musical from Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of South Park, and Robert Lopez, one of the people behind Avenue Q—is in previews; it opens March 24.

A recent study threatens to overturn conventional wisdom.

Six years after a devastating court case, the neo-creationist think tank is still trying to put its panda thumb in the dike.