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In which our columnist suggests that the Church adopt a scheme of numbering to refer to its various arguments against homosexuality. It would be more efficient, certainly, given that these arguments are continually invoked. But why the incessant repetition?

Why is religion without religion not radical enough? How does mysticism “shake hands” with atheism? What is the difference between worship and idolatry? Elliot R. Wolfson keeps us up all night thinking (and running for the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy) as he talks to RD on the occasion of the publication of his newest book.

Affordable in-home paternity tests may spark more questions than answers, including “Do we know enough about DNA to process the results over Pop-Tarts?”

Fearing a repeat of the spectacle in Europe, authorities secretly altered the Torch route; Tibetan monks, protesters, and China supporters clash in the streets.

A crop of new books on the waning influence of conservative Christianity in American politics.

When public intellectuals spar about religion, stalemate is often the result; atheists ignore liberal elements within religious traditions, and liberals don’t do justice to difficult truth-claims, like the divinity of Jesus. Critic James Wood has had it with both camps—but does his “third way” make sense?

The Olympics don’t always leave their host cities better off than before. So why does Chicago want the games?

As the debate over gay marriage is reignited in New Jersey, the local Roman Catholic bishops threw themselves in with a zeal they have yet to display in the fight for universal health care, despite theological requirements that they fight for it. Are they acting like “cafeteria Catholics,” picking and choosing which parts of the Church’s mandates to follow?

What drives some young American Muslims to fight other people’s wars—or worse still, to bring these battles home?

In which the author is particularly irritated by a review of her latest book, and explains why.