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Tired old Protestant-inflected definitions of “religion” are losing hold in diverse Western nations. And it’s about time.

Says position is based on church’s social justice teachings.

Pray tell, can someone look in the mirror?

A mild-mannered schoolteacher doubles as an education-defending Muslim heroine.

Here’s an idea for black churches: be justice churches.

This year’s meeting, held in Orlando, Florida, was made up of 825 nuns and only three priests, one of whom was Seattle’s Archbishop J. Peter Sartain—the official charged by the Vatican with overseeing the LCWR following last year’s harsh assessment of American nuns.

No amount of high-end religious training appears to have shaped Governor Jerry Brown’s conscience sufficiently for him to escape the all-too-familiar pattern of selling himself politically.

Two monastic orders in rural Kentucky, the Sisters of Loretto and Our Lady of Gethsemani, have made news recently for refusing to permit a gas company to install a pipeline across their property.

Despite the fact that, like Buddhism, Islam prohibits murder, the two are treated quite differently when it comes to its adherents committing acts of violence.