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For 200 years religion, medical science, and psychology have been involved in an intricate, shifting alliance in response to addiction. With recent studies calling core principles of AA into question—like the admission of powerlessness, for example—is AA still the best we’ve got for addressing addiction, or would a different theological model work better?

In another stunner from the right wing, a best-selling conservative author discovers that gays can be Christians too.

While the mainstream press has been eager to proclaim the demise of the Episcopal Church, a brief tour of church history reveals that 100,000 Conservative Anglicans defecting from the 80 million-member Communion is nothing more than a case of the spiritual sniffles.

Some Christian Right activists have lost hope that a Christian Nation can be achieved in the United States through the formal political process—including a high-level GOP operative. They are calling for martyrs and thinking about religious war.

An interview with Jamie Moffett, documentarian, on the making of a film on the state of activism, environment, and faith in a country whose politics and economy have been linked to the United States for decades.

The Lambs of Christ founder’s lifetime example of “nonviolent” protest is now being invoked by the Catholic Bishops, according to the Thomas More Society. But for abortion providers Weslin’s nonviolence is just violence by another name.

When I showed up, the room at Harvard Divinity School was already overflowing. World-renowned professors were packing the aisles along with undergrads, standing in the doorways, and squeezing in behind furniture. At the front of the room stood Bhikkhu Bodhi—a short, soft-spoken Buddhist monk…

Can we enjoy the work of men accused of terrible crimes? Does it matter if the artist in question is alive or not? Is there a difference between loving a movie made by an alleged sex offender and loving a work of theology written by one? How on earth do we weigh all of this?

The devaluing of human life—particularly of populations seen as inferior—in order to protect the environment viewed as essential to White identity is at the core of Far Right environmentalism and ecofascist thought.

UCC minister Chuck Currie is campaigning for a seat on a $1 billion legislative body in Portland, Oregon. In this interview with the man whose candidacy may inform our thinking about the role of religious progressives for years to come, the pioneering blogger takes on church/state issues point blank.