Here’s a headline crafted to strike fear in the hearts of Christian conservatives, already primed by the ongoing Republican investigations of the Internal Revenue Service, to think the IRS is out to…
By the third paragraph of Robert Draper’s recent New York Times Magazine cover story, “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” one starts to suspect that the answer is no. It’s at this point…
Bishops in two Catholic dioceses are discouraging parishioners from participating in the popular “ice bucket challenge” that has raised $30 million for ALS research because of concerns that some of…
The Interfaith Alliance, a church-state separation and religious liberty advocate, today sent a letter to the St. Louis County Police Department Chief John Belmar, raising concerns that the police…
The estimable David Leonhardt made a media thing happen over the past few days with his Upshot report on what amounts to a NY Times anal exam of web searches, aided and abetted by the non-evildoers at…
The news out of Ferguson has been dominated by discussions of police brutality and the role of race in an in increasingly militarized police force. While the majority of this focus has been on the…
One of many of the unbecoming habits of career non-believers is the mockery of prayer. From citing research studies about the inefficacy of prayer to accusing those who pray of narcissism to believe…
The Greater St. Mark Church was raided today as St. Louis County Police thought that protesters were spending the night in the church, which has been used as a staging area for protestors. Police have…