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There is nothing small-bore or contemptible about a novel that explores the wonder and heartbreak of romantic love against the distant thunder of imperial warfare.

In a piece in the Washington Post one of the organizers of a groundbreaking public dialogue between pro-choice and pro-life leaders took two giant steps back.

How do you rise to the level of cardinal under Pope Benedict XVI? Two new American cardinals reveal a pattern.

It is not whether we agree, but whether I follow through with what I say I am all about.

Some things really are based upon experience. No matter how much we might say, unless one has had the experience, our words sound awfully empty.

RD talks to a Ugandan LGBT-rights activist about the effect of the US religious right on Ugandan attitudes toward LGBT people.

Sadly, many still clueless on trial’s lessons.

Since last week’s bombing, I’ve spent quite a bit of time reviewing old photographs from trips to Pakistan. In seeing pictures of the shrine pre-attack, and in vividly recalling crowds of peaceful worshipers congregating there, posing no discernible threat to anyone, I was nearly moved to tears.

The humanist community assembled many of its leading lights recently to award Richard Dawkins a prize for furthering rational thought. A secular humanist convention is not the witches’ coven that some sheltered theists might expect. I did not see anyone smoking and never heard a profane word. Drinking at the reception was modest by anyone but a teetotaler’s standards, and far less than at the Episcopal fundraiser I’d attended the previous week. Also unlike the Episcopal affair, I did not spot a single same-sex couple. I began to wonder how much fun these people, freed from religion’s rules, were having with their liberty.

A conservative Christian calls the head of one of the most powerful religious right organizations a bully for his demonizing remarks about LGBT people.