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Branding is a combination of name, logo, and mythology; in a world in which we see more than three-thousand marketing messages a day, does religion have to sell itself in order to remain part of the cultural conversation?

We can rest easy, knowing that our government wants us to be safe from forced implantation of microchips. But it’s not about civil liberties, it’s about dispensational paranoia and fear of the “Mark of the Beast.”

Ben Nelson says he won’t vote to end debate on a Senate health care bill without his Stupak anti-abortion amendment.

School prayer and the First Amendment collide in Florida.

It doesn’t even measure what it claims to be measuring.

Sarah Palin’s denunciation of a federal judge’s ruling on a National Day of Prayer reveals that she knows as little about religion as she does about the Founders.

Replace, repeal, restore … . all aimed at establishing a Christian state.

The crowd favorite at the DC screening I attended was the filmmaker’s interview with Bishop Barbara Harris, whose 1989 consecration as the first female bishop in the Anglican Communion also shook up the church. Harris is memorably direct. About the idea that Robinson is the first gay bishop, Harris snorts, “Give me a break.” In response to some of the rhetoric at the bishops’ gathering, she says, “if assholes could fly, this place would be an airport.”

Some unsolicited advice for the Holy Father.

After initially declining to investigate Ergun Caner, the evangelical university launches a probe.