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While everyone on both sides of the abortion issue seems to condemn the murder of George Tiller, few admit the malignant effects of “baby killer” rhetoric.

Funny Games, abhorred by many critics, challenges the American belief in redemptive violence.

CNN’s sloppy reporting reignited a controversy seized on by conservative lawmakers who prey on the knee-jerk associations the public has with the word “Queer”

Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, Hamlet, Abu Ghraib, and why the Eucharist involves the live audience in a way that Mel Gibson’s The Passion never could.

Buried in the results of a recent survey is the fact that secularists may now be one of America’s largest minorities—larger than gays or African Americans. Will nonbelievers, traditionally one of the most loathed demographics, begin to feel their oats and demand greater recognition in the public square?

Revisiting the secularization hypothesis and Alan Wolfe’s Atlantic essay.

Deconstructing the systematic political theology in the president’s Easter address; are American soldiers merely imitating Christ?

The United States is the only nation save Somalia that’s failed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Armed with a doomsday ten-point plan including the end of spankings and the government preventing parents from bringing kids to church, the force behind the movement to prevent its ratification isn’t just a bunch of strict parents.

From Australia to Ethiopia, more evidence that anti-gay activists from the U.S. are having a troubling influence abroad.

Jeff Chu finds himself a little less strident when talking with people on both sides of the topic of homosexuality and faith. What changed his approach was a year-long journey around the country…