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Today we are a great distance from the ecological situation of medieval Italy. With the aid of capital and industry, we humans have become so practiced, and coldly efficient, in matters of animal domestication that we now have health insurance on offer for wealthy domestic pets while billions of other creatures in our care are heedlessly slaughtered. Our domestication practices are a mess.

Ralph Reed is doing a kind of constitutional drag performance for the press, dressing his religious values in secular sequins and pearls, but we all know what’s beneath the costume, right?

In which I heroically avoid the phrase “performative selfhood.” Oh, wait. Shoot.

For people put off by the religious and political rancor they see in organized religions, or who are repelled by financial and sexual scandals across religious groups, prayer is an experiential reminder that there might be “something else out there,” something “more than just me.”

The Pope-to-be expressed strong critique of the Church in advance of the conclave that elected him.

Mormons seem unable to make up their minds about LGBT rights, torn between knowing discrimination exists and reluctance to endorse same-sex intimacy—much less same-sex marriage, which the Church considers a sin.

It’s clear that much of the power American culture warriors have in Uganda comes from the money their ministries pour into the country along with their missionaries. At the massive Miracle Center Cathedral, the biggest megachurch in Uganda, the high-living pastor is quite frank that “American money helped us build this church,” adding, “whatever you see here is the fruit of American labor.”

Young Mormon man is rejected for missionary service after he comes out for equal treatment of LGBT people in LDS Church.

“I’m not the author of scripture,” Daly confides to NPR’s Rachel Martin.

Ten years on, as the experts who pushed for a disastrous war remain experts, it remains unclear why it ever happened. Was it just racism? Who, after all, does not plan for the day after a war? I plan out what I am going to do when I drive up to New York to see friends and family. Maybe the rest of the world decided to move on while we floundered about, amazed that just because we dreamed something, it could not come to pass.