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If anyone needed more evidence of just how cynical the U.S. Catholic bishops’ manipulation of the principle of “religious freedom” is, look no further than last week’s dismissal of Tony Spence, the…

“Institutions do not usually make for the most thrilling reading,” John Fea writes at the beginning of his impressive, massively detailed institutional history of the American Bible Society. Many…

Nabeel Qureshi made his debut into the evangelical anti-Muslim apologetics market with his conversion narrative Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus, published in 2014. In the past, Qureshi has professed…

With headlines like ” 53 Percent Say Making Nuns Participate in Obamacare Birth Control Mandate is Unfair,” the conservative Christian press has found its angle on Zubik v. Burwell. For the rest of us…

What does the Bible have in common with a raccoon, a Barrett M82 rifle, and square-dancing? Soon, like all these unlike things, the Bible may be part of the state of Tennessee’s official symbology…

Best-selling psychologist David P. Barash has religion all figured out: God the Father is simply the ultimate alpha male.

The Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs), a collaboration of more than a dozen NGOs, has launched a new web platform. The project’s purpose is “to monitor, analyze, and share information…

For all the ink that has been spilled in the last few years over the historic family synods convened by Pope Francis—as well as general prognosticating over the direction he will take Catholic…

You don’t know how glad I am to write a religion-and-politics piece that is not about Trump. At the same time, I have to ask: for this I dropped my usual shtick? We might well ask Bernie Sanders the…

Dear John Kasich, I’ve got four questions for you: Will you come to my Passover seder? Please? Pretty please? For real? Hear my plea, governor: I’m Jewish, and I’m supposed to lead a seder on April…