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McCain has trouble remembering who’s endorsed him and should have had more trouble remembering why he chose Palin as his running mate.

It long predates Beck.

Meet McCain’s newest hail mary, Joe the Plumber, the latest reincarnation of the ahistorical, decontextualized protagonist of America’s myth of success.

If conservative Christians are so worried about the cultural divide, why are the exploiting and deepening it with terrifying videos?

Buddhism, which has a larger US population than either Islam or Hinduism, has had a sizable and growing impact on American culture. So why no representative on the Obama administration’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships?

The French “working group” opened the door a crack… only to qualify its recommendations.

Most physicians trained in modern scientific medicine are quite skeptical of complementary and alternative medicine and other spirituality-based healing practices, but contemporary research points increasingly to what we might call the deep semiotics of health. It seems, minimally, that hope helps to heal. And ritualized hope in groups heals more effectively.

It is simply assumed that black politicians live or die by the support of black preachers—but is it true?

While the media constantly breaks the news that religious people hold complex views when it comes to LGBTQ Americans, it comes as no shock to religious people themselves.

Which leads to the next question: Can we take the antiquated teachings of the Church literally while reading the Bible contextually?