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The Vatican forgives John Lennon, a generation after his death, for saying bad things about religion.

The absence of historical and sociological context for atheist politics, and its disconnection from social justice activism, will keep it in the lily-white one-percent column.

Samurai sword-wielding Mario Majorski blamed his problems on the Church of Scientology—and he may have been right.

It’s not that Christianity itself is hostile to sex, but the Texas evangelical experiment trivializes both sex and marriage.

On the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the Vatican takes care to deny the rights of LGBTQ people.

There’s no need for a new pro-gay version. Just check the one in the Motel drawer.

Seems like the Vatican is aiming for a Grammy, announcing a new “classical pop” record (or classical pope, in this case) today, just in time for holiday gift-giving.

For several years after 9/11, it was one of my favorite pastimes to browse the bookstores in airports in particular to check out the latest screed that had been published on the topic. All of this stoked a desire in me to write a book-length monograph soberly exploring the many dimensions of jihad as evident in different genres of Arabic language primary sources and to anchor these understandings in specific historical circumstances.

Mormon mom describes her journey to acceptance of her gay adolescent son in new film from Family Acceptance Project.

Kids dress up in pilgrim and Native American costumes and parents protest. There is nothing to be served, they say, by dressing up as a racist stereotype.