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USCCB claims a bill that doesn’t sufficiently restrict abortion is not “genuine health care reform.”

Depends which of the 1.6 billion Muslims you ask. A new film seeks to give depth to Western perceptions of Islam. Too bad they didn’t make it to Asia.

Total surrender to heteronomous ethics is unhealthy, period. It may be prescribed by some, but it is also what leads to fundamentalism and religious violence. Gay people know this firsthand: to love oneself as a religious queer person requires interposing one’s own experience between oneself and the text. The text in its traditional reading cannot be correct, because it is incompatible with a notion of a loving God. But that truth is only known by allowing experience, conscience, and discernment to speak.

Claim that alleged shooter took orders from the Muslim Brotherhood straight out of the Islamophobia playbook.

The neurophilosopher, whose latest book argues that the brain is all we are, discusses yoga, her awkward talk with the Dalai Lama, the soul and what makes her want to tell someone to just “bugger off!”

Not only does a new study point to a thriving religious left, but the impact may even be greater than the numbers suggest.

Left or Right, the market always seems to win. This is actually where I would locate the greater threat to Arab democracy, and the temptation to slide into some form of authoritarianism, older or newer. As the people of the region confront the reality that they have little say over economic policy, and will be forced to accede to the contingencies of global capitalism, they may well become immensely frustrated by the scale of change and demand something different. Considering how volatile European and American politics have become, and how frequently we now see street protests and even supposedly stable and demure countries, how much more so these new democracies?

We can’t talk about radical Islamism without addressing fundamentalist Christianity in the armed forces.

Latino Catholics and Protestants, along with black Protestants, do have one thing in common: all three groups have shown the largest movement in support for gay rights over the past five years.

A California court upholds summary judgement in ACSI v. Stearns, rules that the University did not discriminate unfairly when denying credit to students for particular high school courses.