Search

A new book argues that spiritual practices, be they secular or religious, are inherently good for you. Meditation and prayer—be it about God, or evolution, or peace, or the Big Bang—will actually change your brain.

Journalist Christine Wicker thinks that the influence of the Religious Right, now on the wane, has been disastrous for American Christianity.

A new video by Erykah Badu, for which she has been cited for disorderly conduct, shows the singer stripping nude in the Dallas area in which JFK was killed.

Time to take tragedy seriously.

Is it Ross Douthat? Or a reincarnation of T.S. Eliot?

He threatens criminals and undocumented immigrants with impalement but he has ‘Republican values.’ Jonathon ‘The Impaler’ Sharkey’s declaration that he will seek the Republican nomination for president is just another human interest story for the media. But what does it say that his rhetoric and positions don’t deviate appreciably from the current level of discourse?

Before his death, renowned atheist philosopher and co-author of There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, Antony Flew did change his views on theism somewhat; though evidence suggests that it bears little resemblance to the pronouncements of those who sought to advance a well-worn, if seldom true, narrative of the deathbed convert.

If the traditional practice of prayer in the context of traditional institutional religions is increasingly meaningless for a significant and growing proportion of American believers and seekers, one wonders what the spiritual or civic value is of attempting to encourage the practice through governmental fiat.

The disastrous oil spill should come as no surprise, since no amount of human sacrifice is unacceptable or unimaginable where the relentless pursuit of glittering riches is concerned. “Blood Diamonds” is actually an appropriate tag for all forms of mineral wealth; all of it is won and held at the price of rivers of blood and suffering.

Reminding us that there is ample biblical backing for a compassionate posture on immigration the author vividly recounts a personal brush with racial profiling.