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First you ordain women, then you consecrate them as bishops, and—look!—homosexual clergy want to come out of the closet: RD takes a calm look at the latest quarrel between the long-divorced Anglican Church and the Vatican…

Our election columnist stands at the fulcrum of hope and dismay as he contrasts the candidates’ rhetoric…

The exploration of new worlds has traditionally been both liberating and exploitative; can we can break the cycle with Mars?

How did a US Senator end up signing a letter condemning some of his Senate colleagues as bad Catholics?

The initial rush of schadenfreude is gradually replaced with a genuine affection for the “good guys,” and righteous frustration at the machinations of the villains.

The atheist and the interfaith movements actually share a common point of origin: they both started, in part, as a reaction to religious extremism. Much like the atheist movement, the interfaith movement seeks to build inter-group understanding, encourage critical thinking, and end religiously-based sociological and political exclusivism. The fundamental misunderstanding that many atheists have is that they imagine the interfaith movement as disinterested in combating religious totalitarianism and solely existing to maintain religious privilege—as an excuse to show that religion, in its many diverse forms, has a monopoly on morality—but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

The book is at once a rich, humorous history of comics, a political commentary on the absurdities of conservative British and American culture, and a deeply personal memoir. The relevant moments for us here involve those in a Kathmandu hotel room just after the writer had visited a Tantric Buddhist temple. As Morrison chills on the roof of the Vajra Hotel, he sees the temple come alive and begin to rear up like one of those living sports cars in the Transformers movies…

In Dave Ramsey’s plan, God looks an awful lot like a libertarian with a conservative American protestant streak.

RD talks with journalist Amy Waldman whose first novel, The Submission, presciently imagines a controversy, set in post-9/11 New York City, in which the design of a Muslim-American wins a contest to build a 9/11 memorial.

A new form of bias against Muslims is taking shape, one that masks as “objective” and based on observation.