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We—especially those in academia and the media—have written off religion as divisive, outmoded and irrelevant just as we have trivialized spirituality as frivolous self-indulgence. As a result, our politics are soulless and our candidates’ calls for hope fail to translate into change.

“You mess with Israel, you mess with the United States of America.”

The influential founder of Mars Hill says “the ship has sailed.”

Sarah Palin’s baptism-by-waterboarding comment at the National Rifle Association this weekend has disgusted Christians across the spectrum, both for her blaspheming of a religious sacrament, and her…

In the late culture war era, communities are sometimes riven by fierce and needless debates. This month my hometown of Lititz, Pennsylvania has become a case-in-point. The town is divided because the…

As Perry encourages caricature, a fresh look at the LDS context that made the candidate.

Get ready for the 2012 strategy of engaging evangelicals more intently in the right’s anti-government crusade.

Sentimentality has a body count.

Hannibal has “beautiful” crime scenes, but it does not really romanticize suffering. Its version of Hannibal Lecter is a great aesthete, but the beautiful tableaux he creates are polluted, just as the elaborate dinners he prepares for his friends and acquaintances secretly involve the cooked organs of his victims.

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