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On Friday the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would capitulate to demands of Catholic and conservative Christian non-profit organizations that claimed that filling out a form…

When science moves from observation and description to assigning value, it veers into the sacred.

We remember child martyrs in the crusades, young Holocaust victims like Anne Frank, the deaths of Emmett Till and four little girls in Birmingham, Alabama. The children of the day care center in Oklahoma City. Our enduring image from that dark day is a fireman, soaked in blood, carrying a baby on the cover of the magazines. Youth move us because they bring to the light the existential horror of no future.

Yep. But it’s been a while.

“I still cry a lot,” one says, about leaving her family and church.

Populist party, LaRouchite, and other neo-fascist overtures to progressives, and why they must be rejected.

LDS Church: “Don’t assume where we stand. We’re not campaigning on this issue.”

Beliefnet gets to be in charge of its brand. Writers get to decline unworkable contracts. But seriously, the word “feminism” offends people?

The latest gruesome video released by ISIS showing the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff, just thirteen days after the execution of James Foley, is a stark reminder – if such reminders…

The week in religion, poetically.