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In a recent article on the ABC News website about the un-scientific practice known as ” ex-gay therapy,” the outlet neglected to include any comment from anyone in the well-publicized network of…

Where James Dobson used the stick (sometimes literally), his successor Jim Daly prefers the carrot.

A short list of commercials and events with religious underpinnings….

We’re working hard, burning that birthday candle at both ends, but we wanted to stop, take note, and say thank you to our readers and our writers, and to everyone who has helped us reach this milestone.

Ultrasound is now used to treat the malady of not being as opposed to abortion as some people wish you’d be.

Christian conservatives won’t hear of it.

The 30th wedding anniversary calls for pearls, various websites say. And yet, we have no weddings really, from the federal point of view. So what does the 30th mean? Is it the beginning of the end? The end of the beginning? The eschaton? For some, AIDS/HIV is one of the mythic horsemen of the apocalypse. The Salvation Army writes of the “three horsemen of the Russian Apocalypse—AIDS” Others write of the “hybrid horseman of the apocalypse: the global AIDS pandemic.” We debate whether an HIV-positive diagnosis—or even an AIDS diagnosis—is the end of the world. And we write of “the virus at the end of the world.” The victories seem somehow pyrrhic.

The conflation of Geronimo with bin Laden once again illustrates the failure of the U.S. to consider its own history in fighting insurgent wars.

The decision of Episcopal churches like St. Luke’s to convert en masse to Roman Catholicism while retaining a quasi-medieval Anglican liturgy is not, however, a decision to move into this ever-emerging ecclesial reality. It is a solemn retreat into an imagined past where a priest’s sacramental office itself, his back turned to the congregation, protects him from the conflicted desires and diverse stirrings of the wider church.

If Anders Behring Breivik isn’t a Christian terrorist, then the same can be said of Osama bin Laden and many other Islamist activists—whose writings show that they were much more interested in Islamic history than theology or scripture and imagined themselves as re-creating glorious moments in Islamic history in their own imagined wars.