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For someone who propagates the importance of evidence, Sam Harris often ignores his own counsel. Last week the bestselling atheist author posted a podcast (with transcript) titled: “Why Don’t I…

Last week in a blog post here, I suggested that those of us disheartened by the Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College verdicts protest by getting ordained in the universal-ordination church of their choice…

In the latest installment of RD’s collaboration with bloggingheads.tv, associate editor Hussein Rashid talks with Rabbi and RD contributor Benjamin Weiner.

Much has been written about the recent Hobby Lobby decision—how it’s a terrible precedent for corporations to be able to ignore laws because they claim a religious opposition, how the ruling will…

Mother Jones’ David Corn and Molly Redden report on the relationship between the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and the disgraced former leader of the Institute in Basic Life…

You’re probably celebrating, and I’m not here to spit venom on your parade. When you have a moment, I’ve got a question for you that has dogged me throughout the coverage of this case. It doesn’t get…

One hundred religious leaders from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and interfaith organizations have signed a letter to President Obama, asking that he not include a religious exemption in a forthcoming…

Despite being embroiled in two high-profile sex scandals—one over allegations of his own conduct and one over the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdioceses’ mishandling of clerical sex abuse—and calls from…

Change is afoot in the Catholic Church’s handling of divorced people who have sex within subsequent marriages. Long a point of lay dissent and inconsistent practice, at least in democratic capitalist…

Religiously-based efforts to prevent girls from getting an education, like the kidnapping of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram, have resulted in murder and attempted murder (the Malala case), as…