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Yom Kippur is a curious holiday. Widely known, among Jews and non-Jews alike, it is one of the few Jewish holidays also widely observed among the non-observant—probably out of guilt, but possibly out of a vague sense that this is an important day, and fasting is an important thing to…

The unknown history of “Jesus Walks.”

The Gainesville event might be the final culmination of the age of hijackers, where a small group’s manipulation of a powerful vehicle has far-reaching disastrous effects. Only in this case, the vehicle is the Qur’an, not an airplane. And the manipulation need only be virtual. Never has book burning been so effective without even occurring. Symbolic actions on the internet and their consequences in the real world now occur almost simultaneously. And the threat of a symbolic gesture and an actual one become one and the same.

Conscience collides with censorship at BYU, as Mormons struggle to come to terms with the legacy of Proposition 8.

I’m not certain if I attended a church service this weekend in Atlanta, or a prizefight. Eddie Long’s defiant “But this thing I’m gon’ fight” rang out in the 10,000 seat New Birth complex amidst shouts of…

This Sunday, an 80-year-old woman in Ireland, Jennifer Sleeman, won’t be attending church. She hopes that other Catholic women in Ireland will join her: “Stay at home and pray for change.”

At the Creation Museum in Kentucky, a place that promotes the idea that all of these layers of rock got created at once through Noah’s Flood—and yet right under their feet is this beautifully vetted stretch of limestone, it’s really too finely laminated and too extensive to possibly be explained by something like that. So you look at these things and you have to ask, what do you make of the world? Can the world tell its own story?

Sometimes you get to meet history; and sometimes you even get to shake his hand.

A month ago ten humanitarian aid workers in Afghanistan, most of them apparently called to medical mission by a deep Christian faith, were massacred by the Taliban. The New York Times’ front-page caption beneath their pictures read: “Humanitarian Victims of Afghan…

Times columnist promotes myth of “true” American identity.