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Wealth creation guru James Arthur Ray is under investigation for criminal negligence in the deaths of two participants in a sweat lodge last week. Is this the inevitable result of outsider appropriation of a sacred ritual, or is the story more complex? Our writer, whose own tradition includes the sweat lodge ceremony, explains the nuances.

Another David Lane effort?

In her 1969 essay “On Violence,” Hannah Arendt described bureaucracy as government by an intricate system in which no one person can be held responsible, the “rule by Nobody.” Atheism, then, would be the view that it’s bureaucracy all the way up. Now a…

Only a minority of Obama’s faith-based leaders have any expertise on the topic and most are far more philosophically attuned to abstinence-only sexuality education

Drawing lines, protecting church-state separation.

They want science the way they want it, not the way it is.

An epic choke on foreign policy knowledge—and that of his own base.

Duggars’ big family in an information vacuum.

Wait. Using your wife’s death to score cheap political points against a group of people you hate isn’t “morally wrong”?

Science just doesn’t do purpose.