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The King James Bible may well be the greatest work of literature ever written by committee—and now we know a bit more about the collaboration that produced it. Jeffrey Allen Miller, an English…

It’s official—with Ross Douthat’s conspiracy-drenched Sunday column, the idea that the synod is somehow a “plot to change Catholicism” has leapt from the far-right Catholic fringe to the conservative…

Members of the infamously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) arrived in Morehead, Kentucky today to picket the Rowan County courthouse, workplace of Kim Davis, the county clerk and “religious…

Novelist Marlon James became the first Jamaican author to be awarded the Man Booker Prize. “However,” writes Joe Williams at Pink News, “a number of Jamaican commentators have highlighted that while…

While most reactions to the 13 conservative cardinals who sent a letter to Pope Francis complaining that the outcome of the family synod was rigged in favor of progressives focused on the intrigue…

When you get down to it, neuroscience is just brains studying brains. One upshot of this reflexivity is a funny kind of loop: studying the brain tells you about being a self; being a self offers up…

At ThinkProgress, Jack Jenkins gives a rundown of current GOP favorite Marco Rubio’s triumvirate religious affiliation, noting that Rubio’s associations with Mormonism, Catholicism and Evangelicalism…

When it comes to the end-times, Ben Carson may just be confounding the typical narratives about conservative Christian presidential candidates. If a conservative evangelical or Pentecostal candidate…