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If you take credit for a “culture of life,” do you have to accept some responsibility for a tragic death?

Mike Huckabee’s biblical analogy fail.

You and I both long for a “new awakening.” The difference is that I believe we did in fact see a new awakening in this election. An awakening to the the need to reject all theocratic language and all theocratic posturing for the sake of authentic religious freedom.

Mia Love—Black, Mormon, Republican, and poised for political stardom—fails to launch.

The blinding glare of whiteness, the slap of social conservatism hamstrings the GOP. Is the same true for the Anglican Communion? For global Christianity?

It’s simpler to assume that religion and feminism are at odds; that religion is simply the provenance of those who use tools like pro-life politics to fight feminist agendas. It’s much more complicated to think of religion as both resource and adversary in the political struggles that feminists face.

The latest bloggingheads.

A round-up of reactions, from gracious to the painful.

In the beginning were the stars, the cosmos calmed, ordered, still. Like every other film announcing its mytho-logic from the get-go, the camera angle of Cloud Atlas’ first shot tilts from the milky heavens above, to life in the mortal-bound realm below.

Surprising notes on the religious (and non-) make up of the U.S. Congress.