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On Welton Gaddy’s State of Belief, RD’s Julie Ingersoll offers a primer on Christian Reconstructionism.

Russell Pearce, a student of Cleon Skousen, takes on the 14th Amendment.

The popular term “spiritual but not religious” only goes so far in describing an event like this. I think Burning Man shows us the enduring importance of ritual as a vehicle through which humans connect with one another and as well as with a mysterious “more,” while also showing us how these expressions are increasingly displaced outside the bounds of the dominant Western cultural concepts of “religion.”

Episode 7: “Amy’s Choice”

Jesus struck by lightning.

The town of Rosemary Beach is living — for now — under a BP-free illusion.

Two of Galileo’s fingers (three, actually) are to be placed on public display, along with one of his teeth, in the newly refurbished Museum of the History of Science in Florence.

The political vision of Generation Joshua and iGovern rests on the historical narrative of America as a chosen nation; one not only founded on Christian principles but desperately needing to return to those roots today. Like the conservative Christians striving to influence the content of public school textbooks in Texas, GenJ presents a competing vision of what America should be, and exhorts its students to recognize the pivotal role they can play in making that vision a reality.

Has the Democratic Party scrapped its religious outreach program? Should it? Has the White House taken it over?