Search

Oklahoma senator is blocking a bill that would disarm brutal “Lord’s Resistance Army” in Africa.

Rather than provide health care to gay and lesbian spouses, Catholic Charities cuts off spousal benefits.

The news has hit most of the major papers in India and the United States. Under threat from a small group called Shiksha Bachao Andolan, Penguin Press has withdrawn Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History.

The religious roots of a new “black genocide” film.

The causes of disasters are natural, not supernatural.

Answers in Genesis proselytizes to Olympics competitors and spectators.

Many Israelis and Jews took to Avatar with aplomb, likening it to Kabbalah and turning out in record numbers in Israel. But it remains to be seen how Jews and Israelis will respond to Palestinian protesters who, dressed as the film’s besieged protagonists, aim to position themselves in the hearts of observers as the sympathetic underdogs.

What Damon Linker gets wrong about the Bible and secularism.

We—especially those in academia and the media—have written off religion as divisive, outmoded and irrelevant just as we have trivialized spirituality as frivolous self-indulgence. As a result, our politics are soulless and our candidates’ calls for hope fail to translate into change.

Pete Seeger had mixed feelings about organized religion, but he had strong feelings about organizing. He knew the power of joining people together in song. Just don’t call him a saint.