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In The Family Jeff Sharlet explains how a little-known group links religion and power to cultivate influence…

A commenter from a recent review of Karen Armstrong’s new book writes that a central claim of hers is “utterly false.” Our blogger examines that claim.

Religion and secularism in American politics: there’s more than one way to understand the relationship.

Conservative media gets all excited about a bit of non-news that supports the aims of the ex-gay movement.

When an Arizona man brought guns to an Obama speech the story went unnoticed by a media prone to seeing such people as lone nuts. A look at the sermons of his virulently anti-gay pastor who’s been praying for Obama’s death, however, reveals similarities to a far right theology associated with militias, radical prolifers, and proponents of theocracy.

Former beauty contestant claims she’s being attacked. But it might be simply that — possibly for the first time in her life —someone stopped looking at her body long enough to listen to her words, and found her to be ugly.

Capitalizing on the Muhammad cartoon riots and Western anxieties over the persecution of Muslims, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution urging member states to prosecute for “religious defamation.” Problem is, those likely to suffer most are religious minorities.

It seems as if Beck, Conservapedia and others are trying to call themselves Christian when what they are espousing has nothing to do with Christian brotherly love.

Given the strictures of Muslim dating, what are all the eligible Muslim women to do in the face of the dearth of eligible Muslim men? Sex? Online dating? Marry outside the faith?

What holds “us” together anyway? The only way to find out is to continue the conversation — barbaric yawp is always preferable to cold silence.