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Representatives of Scientology have had trouble with prosyletizing in the past.

Two new books, one offering a vision of interfaith, universal religion, the other a model of a radically transformed Judaism, attempt to wrestle God into the everyday. Against the ascendancy of the so-called New Atheism, both writers argue for a God who transcends “god-management systems” and whose primary claim on us is through our own spiritual longing.

Conservatives overlook his support for abortion rights for short-term gains.

Without the Bible as support, anti-gay marriage attorneys resorted to a smattering of flimsy arguments, half truths, and discredited studies.

We complain about something like the health care debacle, but look at how much sheer force has to be arrayed against progressive causes. Maybe we’ve been looking at things all wrong…

Preachers and public figures have often used natural disaster as an occasion to opine about God’s justice, or lack thereof. Or to make the definitive case against a divine order. But Haiti deserves to be addressed on its own terms, and in relation to the needs of those still suffering.

Mark McGwire gives thanks to “the man upstairs” as he confesses his steroid use, Tiger Woods is publicly urged to find Jesus—but that’s just the tip of the iceberg, or the football, as the case may be, when it comes to the link between sports and evangelical Christianity.

A fine start. And now we look forward to a deeper, and broader conversation.

On the eve of the vote for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, we contemplate the gulf between the incoherent story offered by the president’s party, and the compelling narrative—about systems of oppression, and the perils of a deeply entrenched status quo—of prophetic religion.