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Pastor Joel Osteen won’t have a home team advantage this weekend in the Bronx, but chances are the crowd will be with him. What’s this generation bringing to the Osteen brand?

Responses to these events that ignore the underlying issues they express—that would see soccer-related violence, like the uprisings this week, simply as ferociously bad manners that can be corrected by cutting off social media access—invite more of the same. Absent religious institutions, soccer grounds, or other outlets as sites for organized repression and/or expression of the powerlessness and hopelessness that characterizes youth culture in places that simmer like East London all over the economically floundering developed world, more such outrage is always just one blind, stupid authoritarian action away.

Why is the highest journalistic award handing out prizes for reporting on the sexual dalliances of powerful pols? And we wonder why papers are closing their doors?

If American Muslims do not oppose torture and participate in the conversation on American morality, they become a special interest group with little relevance. But within Islam there is a strong religious case to be made against torture.

The CUA bends its own rules when it comes to the religious right.

Confessed shooter wrote that “politically correct elites” made Europe soft to Islam.

It’s difficult to believe that Newt’s role as critic of Obama’s foreign policy has as much to do with patriotism as with raw political ambition.

At 400 pages, Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream examines in appropriate depth the “mystery just how America’s once-austere and communal…

Modern medicine can prolong the lives of dying people, but in doing so it often prolongs suffering. Do religious arguments against suicide apply in these tragic cases?

Responding to a post last week, a public theologian (and evangelical blogger) lays out the challenge.