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The AIDS epidemic is a justice issue, not a moral one, theologian Beverley Haddad explains—in the face of overwhelming challenges, there is no room for regressive moralizing from religious leaders.

The task of religious thinking in the age of AIDS is to counter society’s rejection of the ill, the old, the marginalized.

A brief tour through some forthcoming films.

Buddhism, which has a larger US population than either Islam or Hinduism, has had a sizable and growing impact on American culture. So why no representative on the Obama administration’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships?

A new kind of church-state incursion.

Travel imparts one with the indelible impression that something is out there. That something may not be the existence of God, but it is certainly the existence of the rest of the world. Plus, it’s harder to kill those you’ve met.

A proposed measure in Uganda would make repeated homosexual activity punishable by death. Anti-gay activists in the United States may think that it goes too far, but they laid the groundwork for it.

By the time this book tour is finished, she will have succeeded in splitting the republican party, solidifying a new hard right religious base, and making enough money to turn Alaska into the New Jerusalem.

Forty years ago, Indian militants, as they were then named, occupied the island of Alcatraz. In their memory, our writer reflects on both the bloody history of the first Thanksgiving, and the remarkable, enduring power of tribal tradition to create spiritual sustenance in the modern world.

Maybe it’s time to stop framing European conquest as dinner party between Pilgrims and Indians.