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At Capitol Hill rally, pro-choice Democrats talk women’s rights, not common ground.

A Democrat in Congress has called for changes to the IRS rules on church issue advocacy. That’s not likely to change, but perhaps some transparency is in order.

That doesn’t stop rumor, innuendo, and profiling.

While a valiant effort at a compassionate depiction of individuals swept up in the horror of the Bosnian Genocide, Angelina Jolie’s main character, Danijel, simply ends up humanizing genocide.

In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, religious violence is supposed to be resisted, but it’s also violence that the audience is being asked to look at. Over and over and over again.

To spend this season in Rome is to recall that traditional religions specialize in beauty in worship.

Two unlikely heroes, Tim Tebow and Jeremy Lin, have rocked the sports world. Lurking behind their stardom is a whole lot of bad theology.

We tolerate all manner of slovenly, scanty and bizarre dress, yet a fashion associated with young men of color is singled out for prohibition…

Religious Right leaders are demanding that gay Republicans are excluded while remaining silent on conspiracy-minded John Birch Society.

Kadivar’s condemnation of all fatwas that call for the death of a “blasphemer” or “apostate” is in the spirit of his general approach to Islamic law. In his opinion as a legal scholar, an interpretation of Islam is fully compatible with the provisions of the UN declaration of Human Rights. When I asked him if he was optimistic about the possibility of reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a reform that would bring Islam into congruence with Human Rights ideas, he answered affirmatively and assertively. “Yes,” he said, “I am optimistic. That is why I am writing.”