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Many will draw hasty conclusions from a new breakthrough on the cancer front. The real breakthroughs have been telling us that what we—our genes and cells— experience, can affect our children and our children’s children.

Pastor Dan addresses the Religious Left with suggestions, words of caution, a plea for compromise and a more broadly-conceived coalition than any to date.

A generation after the infamous Scopes Trial, a biology teacher, Susan Epperson, went to court and won the right to teach evolution theory. Even the election of a new, more science-friendly administration, however, does not ensure that the Bible will no longer be used as a science textbook.

It has become common to blame the black community for the passage of California’s same-sex marriage ban. A look at the statistics and logic put the lie to this seductive and simplistic narrative.

Is authentic religious commitment incompatible with critical thinking, reason, or compromise, as philosopher Simon Critchley seems to imply in a recent essay on Obama? Or is our challenge to refuse the false oppositions between total transformation and conflict, or politics and piety?

Though many have already sought to draw comparisons between Mumbai and 9/11, the most striking thing about the horrific attacks in Mumbai is the local sense of place that that the terrorists tried to destroy.

As long as the world community chooses to focus primarily on military options, these attacks will continue. But there are other options if we are willing to talk.

Though it may be unhelpful to draw comparisons between the administration and fascist regimes, it’s important to recognize the “family resemblances” in their political reasoning and self-conception.

In which our columnist suggests that the Church adopt a scheme of numbering to refer to its various arguments against homosexuality. It would be more efficient, certainly, given that these arguments are continually invoked. But why the incessant repetition?

A major union’s Labor Day concession to Muslim workers sparks anti-immigrant outrage in a Tennessee town…