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Rather than approaching the tagging as a criminal act, however, church leaders decided to take the tagging seriously as an expression of something spiritually meaningful—a cry for help, perhaps; even a mocking expression of religious skepticism. They approached it relationally, using the church building itself as a social media platform, and responding with their own message of hope.

The seven of us stood in the parking lot of the office building across the street, and Joe opened the zippered cover of his three-ring binder full of painstakingly collected photographs of the old neighborhood gathered for the exhibition. As he began reading aloud an oral history from Marian Sahadi Ciacci—“A Syrian who married an Italian!”—it felt like a religious occasion, a conjuring out of almost nothing of an entire world gone by.

After a tornado victim reveals her atheism on CNN, an atheist campaign, led by a comedian, to help her family rebuild gains traction.

Don’t hate me because I prefer stories about my father butchering The Temptations’ version of Silent Night to dressing my kids in kente cloth.

What does a Muslim from a predominantly Jewish-American neighborhood think about during the Christmas holiday?

The famed primatologist’s latest book is a conversation about the common ground among atheists and bonobos, both of whom make it clear that religion has, lamentably and unjustifiably, been given credit for human morality.

What happens when you search for contraception on the new Catholic-sanctioned search engine?

Doth the inaugural pastor protest too much? (With pages on lesbians and gays “scrubbed” from Saddleback Church Web site)

LBGT folks are like the rainforest, says Pope. Endangered by logging? Or just needing to be saved from themselves?

Are we witnessing the old Reagan trick of extending an empty hand to a mainstream group while risking the ire of the politically powerless?