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Reeling from the death of Steve Jobs earlier this month, the world might now mourn another visionary who made technology an intimate part of our lives.

The Rev. Derrick Harkins has instead sought “common understanding.”

Religion and science in couples therapy.

The candidates’ not-straight answers on religion and religious tests for office.

It’s as though they should not be put in such an awful position of having their views on abortion compromised in this one very specific circumstance. It is an outrage.

The Personhood Amendment, MS26, is a deceptively simple sentence: “The term ‘person’ or ‘persons’ shall include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof.” There’s not a word about IVF, or about contraception, or about ectopic pregnancy treatment or miscarriages. Anyone who considers himself or herself pro-life will almost certainly reflexively agree with it. The implications, though, are drastic. Because there’s no established legal standard for what rights are conveyed by the term “personhood,” it can be applied as broadly as the state legislature and judicial system will support. Everyone, supporters and dissenters alike, agrees that it will prohibit elective abortion, the morning-after pill, and discarding frozen embryos. What else, though, might be prohibited under the same logic?

Bearing witness is a sacred act.

An interview with Patrick Mason, the nation’s leading scholarly expert on anti-Mormonism.

Subatomic particles break the cosmic speed limit—will theology catch up?

Now that the curtain’s been pulled back on the false wizardry of a deregulated financial system, and Americans have been left holding a bag full of bank bailouts, home foreclosures, historic levels of unemployment and poverty, and wage stagnation for those with jobs, “loser” is a label most of us can, in one way or another, wear easily in the current economy. So goes the American Dream these days.