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A religious scholar in Egypt recently warned against listening to broadcasts of the Qur’an, as the mediating influence is disrespectful to the text. But what of disregard for human agency?

Nothing like dropping in a lot of trigger-happy hired guns to win hearts and minds, right?

The President is reaching out to faith leaders to help reframe the health care debates in moral terms, and religious progressives are heeding the call(s).

A new book of essays on the meaning of Avatar, is a down-in-the-dirt wrestling match between those who resonate with it and those who hate a film that’s been labeled pro-civilization and anti-civilization, pro-science and anti-science, un-American and too American, feminist and misogynistic, leftist and neoconservative, and pagan, atheistic, theistic, and animistic.

The way we live will lead, inevitably, to the extinction of half of the planet’s biodiversity by century’s end. How can our morality, or our religion, prepare us for this?

What inspired you to write The Future of the Arab Spring? The Arab revolutions, which began in December 2010, were my most obvious inspiration. As someone who had worked on and long been obsessed with…

The staging in Jaffa of a controversial play with Jesus as central character is shut down by protests—but not for the reasons one might imagine.

A primetime sci-fi soap opera takes on issues of secular vs. spiritual—in space.

A few gamers call for a boycott of an Xbox title designed by a well-known gay rights opponent. Most are unfazed.

The tragedy of this health care debate is that the protesters won’t be the only ones who lose access to care—we all will.