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Yesterday morning President Barack Obama gave the keynote address at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, a longstanding tradition among presidents since Dwight D. Eisenhower. The breakfast also drew Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace and husband of recent Arizona shooting victim… This isn’t anti-religion; this is anti-hatred.

Just when you thought that “new atheism” marked a radical turn, along comes an even more rebellious concept of religious dissent: misotheism.

Imagine a cabinet meeting in which a Brotherhood minister suggests negating the peace treaty and risking $1.3 billion in US aid.

As Islamic political thought evolves, no easy answers to how events in Egypt will unfold.

A few weeks ago the stars were realigned. The Archimedes’ Lever of this cosmic shift was, of all places, in Minnesota, where a newspaper published an article quoting an astronomer on an issue involving the accumulated result of long, slow gravitational pull. These comments went viral online at something close to the speed of light, leading to reevaluation of the Zodiac, panic among horoscope followers, assorted tweets defending or regretting tattoo selections, and some attempts at explanation from astrologists as to their systems of making sense of human existence through claims about the pull of the stars.

A single document and a discredited prosecution tactic have fueled the Islamophobia industry, now spreading falsehoods about the Muslim Brotherhood.

Many commentators have assumed that somehow Egypt would follow Iran’s unique trajectory.

Most physicians trained in modern scientific medicine are quite skeptical of complementary and alternative medicine and other spirituality-based healing practices, but contemporary research points increasingly to what we might call the deep semiotics of health. It seems, minimally, that hope helps to heal. And ritualized hope in groups heals more effectively.

With murder of David Kato, human rights activists’ greatest fear has come to pass.

The Catholic Church subsidizes the event so significantly they should just call it the Catholic March for Life.