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Religious investors have often served as an early warning system, alerting businesses to ethical or environmental issues that affect society and the planet—and eventually the bottom line. The latest issue? Climate risk.

A scholar of nonviolence shares his struggle with Jewish identity during a time of escalating conflict and violence in Israel.

The Democratic leadership caved in to conservative Republicans on family planning this week. The opposition for the religious right goes back to the historic rupture between sex and reproduction in the 20th century.

The new Patriarch is considered a modernist, but his support for freedom of religion is spotty, and Russia’s fledgling gay rights movement will not find an ally in Kirill.

Prayers For Bobby, a new Lifetime TV movie, portrays the tragic struggle of a gay teen in a conservative Christian family and the family’s attempt to “heal” him. Predictably, the film was heavily criticized by the religious right.

Former pastor Ted Haggard is desperate for redemption, but he can’t do the one thing that might make it possible—admit and accept that he’s gay.

In the same way that actual radicals were chic among left-leaning socialites in the late seventies, NASCAR and pork rinds were a mark of authenticity for conservatives throughout the Bush years. But now some Republicans are rethinking their down-market identities.

Benedict’s ecclesial acceptance of someone most thoughtful people wouldn’t invite to a cocktail party showed a disregard of the sensibilities of his own flock.

Buying locally reminds us that purchasing is a mythical act that cements us to community in some magical way. But what if the very morality of a “local” act is being marketed in its own right? Is it just as moral to help a Palestinian cultural center build community as it is to buy Cisco products whose ads promise the same?

Two examples of transposition from one culture or location to another, and both work surprisingly well.