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When men do it, we don’t blink an eye, but when a woman gallivants around the world looking for love we are quick to call her self-indulgent.

Trayvon, the Toulouse murders, and the sanctity of childhood.

Sorting it all out.

“God has given sooo much information in the Bible about [the end of the world],” Camping said, “and so many proofs, and so many signs, that we know it is absolutely going to happen without any question at all.”

A new campaign from the religious right, “The Civility Project,” aims to solve difficult social issues with politeness. What’s the real agenda here?

In wake of Rush Limbaugh calling a Georgetown U student a “slut” RD has some helpful hints on how to avoid…well, you can read the headline.

It’s difficult to escape the sense that something is still missing from press coverage of Romney’s Mormonism.

The candidates and the religious right in Florida.

The desire to translate events like Qaddafi’s death into video games is an attempt to simplify complex issues into patterns that we can recognize and make sense of, with predictable rules, defeatable “bad guys,” and the hopeful celebration of an “epic win.”

Russell is continually, even post-mortem, called “ provocative,” “ controversial,” and “ iconoclastic.” And at least a few of these obits have noted his conversion to Roman Catholicism all those years ago, though he was never quite settled in his faith. Certainly there was religious content in his films—the nuns and priests in a sexual standoff in The Devils (1971), Anthony Perkins’ creepy street preacher in Crimes of Passion (1984)—but it was the human experience that Russell so strangely charted that leaves me thinking of his “religious” nature. He portrayed the depths of human depravity and desire, of lust and liking.