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California Supreme Court rules that congregations who split from their denominations must give up their property. Not a good thing for churches, or churchgoers.

A Mormon, a Pentecostal preacher, and a Jew walk into a bar… or something, but it’s no joke.

Responses to the taking of innocent life vary according to whose innocent life has been taken.

I almost feel sorry for David Bahati. Almost.

This year, LGBT advocates in New York had ample cause to be hopeful, but the opposition—led by National Organization for Marriage, the Catholic Bishops, and Orthodox Jews—remain confident of victory.

OK, so gays are not the only ones with marriage issues.

For young Egyptians fighting Mubarak’s rule, the fight really wasn’t fair, so why can’t our kids stand up and address our worsening problems? Have we forgotten that our parents were, to paraphase the Bible, “slaves in America?”

The public discourse on religion was abundantly brawny, but it lacked brains. Meet nuance.

Many of these weather events actually are a kind of “punishment”—not in the conservative-theological sense of tit-for-tat justice meted out by an Abusive Father on High, but in the more progressive-theological sense of unforeseen consequences of reckless human actions. Climate scientists have said for years that global climate change will lead to increased severe weather events, and now they appear to be here; along with droughts and poor harvests caused by shifting climatic belts. On a planetary basis, we are reaping what we have sown for two hundred years.

Philosopher Slavoj Zizek thinks that Judaism and Zionism are in tension with each other, but this seeming paradox is just the tip of the iceberg, or Greenberg, or Goldberg…