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10 questions for the author of a new satire of American Christianity.

If art is the new religion, then museums are the new temples; temples uniquely suited to the vagaries of spirituality in the modern age. That is the suggestive idea explored in Marcia Brennan’s new book, Curating Consciousness. Brennan introduces us to James Johnson Sweeney…

Things must really be picking up at the cosmic level, relative to the hajj.

The 25th anniversary of the Jesus Seminar is a good time to ask if it makes a difference when the Jesus of history turns out to be considerably more interesting than the myth-encrusted Christ created by the church over the centuries.

Church responds, denounces bullying, and calls on Mormons to reject anti-LGBT attitudes and behaviors.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

On August 31, a few days before the opening of the current American-led Middle East peace talks in Washington, four Israelis were killed by Hamas operatives in the West Bank. Among them was a pregnant woman. This did not bode well for the future of the talks, about which there was already a great…

Yes, Mr. Sprigg, we who are gay or lesbian do, indeed, have to be gay for the rest of our lives.

In Amsterdam in 1709, philosopher John Toland set his eyes upon a remarkable manuscript—what he described in Nazarenus as “a Mahometan Gospel, never before publicly made known among Christians.”…

Government and God.