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I tried to resume my tawaf, but lost my state of ablution.

“It was what I found in the archives that inspired me to write the book—Craddock’s unpublished book manuscripts on everything from ancient sex worship to contemporary marriage reform. And then there was her journal of mystical experiences—a diary so baffling and intense in its combination of spiritualism and sexuality as to demand attention.”

Despite these publicly marked divides, the field of religion and science cannot easily be described by sticking a “vs.” between the two words. Rather than an ideological battle in which, as Hawking states, one side of the ring will “win” over the other, for some, the question is about how the two sides might work together.

Moving evangelicals beyond cut-and-paste arguments against LGBT inclusion

While 2010 was an encouraging year for LGBT equality, reports of the death of Mormon opposition to homosexuality are greatly exaggerated.

While the details of Loughner’s views on currency and language might not have a following, they differ only in degree and not in kind from the autodidactic, eccentric musings of senatorial candidates who cite the unconstitutionality of unemployment insurance and minimum wage, who see in health care reform a plot to kill senior citizens, who propose the gold standard as a solution to the national debt, or who question the president’s birth certificate. If Loughner’s radical vision of individual autonomy is deranged and psychotic, it is a kind of derangement and psychosis that increasingly characterizes our political climate.

The decision to deploy the image of innocent childhood at the end of Obama’s Tuscon speech seemed strange then, and still seems strange now.

According to Professor Marc Ellis, a critic of Israel and the American Jewish establishment, Baylor University’s new president Ken Starr is seeking to replace him with “a right-wing, Israel-loving Jew that would cement [Starr’s] reputation with the right wing…”

Yes, Mr. Sprigg, we who are gay or lesbian do, indeed, have to be gay for the rest of our lives.

Winners and losers: that’s what we’re left with in the winner-take-all society. No one is suggesting that U.S. public education is not in need of serious research-based innovation; the question is whether staging a race by dangling $3.6 billion dollars over the heads of freaked-out and desperate state and local school authorities is the way to go.