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Murder often functions as a cultural Rorschach test: the narratives we tell about why people kill often reveal more about ourselves than the killers. The day before Halloween, 21-year-old Isaiah Marin…

Michael Sean Winters is taking Wendy Davis’ “lackluster” gubernatorial campaign in Texas as evidence that Democrats are barking up the wrong tree with pro-choice candidates, especially in states like…

Pro-life conservatives keep falling for the same urban legend: Somewhere, the logic of abortion has devalued human life to the point it is now acceptable to kill newborns, infants, even toddlers. It’s…

Last week’s Southern Baptist Convention conference on “ The Gospel, Homosexuality, and the Future of Marriage” presented a somewhat untidy hodgepodge of mixed messages as it vacillated between its…

I recorded this latest bloggingheads episode with Jerusalem lawyer Daniel Seidemann before Temple Mount activist Yehuda Glick was shot this week by a Palestinian gunman, so it turns out it’s extremely…

Apple CEO Tim Cook, who heads what is certainly one of the most visible global corporations, came out as gay this week. His statement included a phrase that brought joy to LGBT religious activists: “I…

David Gushee is thinking a lot about history. About social change, about civil rights movements, about religion, about power, about the Bible, about oppression, and about love. He has been thinking a…

I wasn’t sure how far “The Good Wife“ ‘s Alicia Florrick had made it into cultural consciousness, but now that the NY Times’ Eric Asimov has done a serious bit of pop critique on that character’s…

The brouhaha over Bill Maher’s recent remarks about Islam and Muslims is growing weirder by the day. During an episode of his HBO show “Real Time,” the controversial host took aim at President Obama’s…

“Halloween gives you a great opportunity to show how Christians celebrate the day that death was defeated, and you can give them Gospel tracts…”