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I think we should be cautious about attempts to frame the Boston bombings, or for that matter any profound act of violence, mainly as a failure of (or an injunction for) “interfaith cooperation.”

My grandfather, born to immigrants in 1878, was undoubtedly familiar with the all-but-forgotten figure of Robert Green Ingersoll, the “Great Agnostic,” who popularized Darwin for the millions, who championed the disgraced Thomas Paine, and who kept alive the important tradition of American free thought during the last quarter of the 19th century.

While the decision for any individual to abort or not is a delicate and fraught one, the desire for state control women’s bodies comes down to good old fashioned misogyny.

What can the strange juxtaposition of Warren and Robinson teach us about the current state of the religion-and-culture wars?

Bishop Gene Robinson’s prayer at the “We are One” inaugural event is silenced by technical difficulties, and cut from the broadcast. If you pray and HBO doesn’t cover it, can God still hear it?

Why did Bush not do more for peace during his failed presidency? Because someone is always lobbing a rocket or detonating a bomb, and this invalidates any and every gesture toward peace, in his simple view.

So far as I can tell, nothing in our language or in our collective practice, digital or otherwise, holds space for such moments of spiritual pause, however secularized that spirituality might be.

Bush connections to JFK, the Bay of Pigs, and the Saudi royal family are investigated by renowned journalist Russ Baker in his new book, hot off the press.

The governor has been tried in the court of opinion, but this does not take away his duty to operate under the rule of law. And he is playing within the rules of the system.

Let us ask: How does God guide you, exactly?