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Reflecting on Sai Baba’s life, one encounters moments of divine transformation, devotion, and public service as well as pain, death, and heinous accusations. Millions of devotees believed in and worshiped Sai Baba as a god-man, an avatar of God. Many also despised him as a charlatan, a sexual abuser, and even an accessory to murder.

Borrowing generously from old school humanists like Rousseau, and deploying scientific data, Brooks’ new book argues for a more heartfelt humanism. Aren’t there more interesting lessons on human life that we might cull from scientific research?

When survival is the name of the game, how are White Male Heterosexual Conservative Christians going to rally the diminishing troops in a desperate bid to hold on to the power slipping from their hands?

What’s driving the birtherism? Not Donald Trump.

Evangelist tries damage control at Christianity Today.

Unromantic as it may sound, the celebration of the transformative power of consumption seems to be part of the magic of the wedding day for many women. On this day I am more beautiful, elegant, and radiant than any other. On this day everything is perfect and lavish and matching. A real-life royal wedding, televised and celebrated by millions, represents and encapsulates this magic. It might be tempting for some to argue that the wedding-as-princess-pageant represents a secularization of the marriage rite. But the truth is that the celebration of consumption, the acting-out of the princess ritual, is its own expression of what has become sacred.

Maggie Gallagher doesn’t hate gay people, she just loves marriage.

Christian nationalism finds harmonious home with smaller government anti-tax crusade. What a coincidence.

Religious and political conservatives have long feared the global march of paganism and socialism. In their view, it was bad enough when Earth Day emerged in 1972, promoting a socialist agenda. But now, under the auspices of the United Nations, the notion has morphed into the overtly pagan, and…

In a nation founded on the radical premise of republican virtue without a monarch to rule over the people what would keep people in line? Hell.