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What are we to make of Robert Spencer’s admission?

This is a confusing video.

The Satanic Temple, the group behind the proposed monument to Satan in Oklahoma, has announced that they will hold a “historical re-enactment” of a black mass at Harvard University today. The event is…

Progressive Catholic orgs petition the Pope to lay off the nuns. Not bloody likely.

The week in religion, poetically.

President Obama was in Indonesia this week, but was forced to cut his trip short. As of this writing, Indonesia’s Mount Merapi is still spewing clouds of ash into the sky, and the death toll from the eruptions that began two weeks ago has grown to 191. Mbah Marijan was among the victims of he recent eruptions. He was eighty-three years old, and the juri cunci of the volcano, a “guardian of the key,” responsible for maintaining a relationship to the spirits of the mountain.

Has religion run its course in western culture?

When “european_douchebag” posted a photo of a young woman he got more than he bargained for.

Romney’s failure to tell the Mormon story may have contributed to his disconnect with voters. Who will try next?

Commenting to Fox News, Staten Island Representative Michael Grimm has called the work a “deplorable piece,” one that is as “offensive” to Christians as ‘Innocence of Muslims’ is to “the Islamic world.” Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the comparison has provided opportunity to emphasize the supposed moral high ground that Christians occupy over Muslims when it comes to material deemed offensive or blasphemous. Tony Perkins, president of the Family Council, told Fox News that the two incidents shore up “the contrast between Islam and Christianity.” “You don’t have to plead with Christians not to riot and burn and storm buildings simply because they are offended,” Perkins said. “That’s the difference. That’s why Christianity moves nations forward and Islam moves nation backwards.”