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In Canada getting married to your same-sex partner is just a matter of filling out the paperwork. So we did.

As the debate over gay marriage is reignited in New Jersey, the local Roman Catholic bishops threw themselves in with a zeal they have yet to display in the fight for universal health care, despite theological requirements that they fight for it. Are they acting like “cafeteria Catholics,” picking and choosing which parts of the Church’s mandates to follow?

What drives some young American Muslims to fight other people’s wars—or worse still, to bring these battles home?

Conservatives in this country are undergoing an existential crisis, but this is not the time for liberals to sit by smugly and watch.

Is Obama pulling a Dukakis, allowing all that anger and anxiety that could’ve been used for good to just slip away?

A religious scholar in Egypt recently warned against listening to broadcasts of the Qur’an, as the mediating influence is disrespectful to the text. But what of disregard for human agency?

Do we turn to the wrong institutions when we go to courts of law to attempt to enact forgiveness or reconciliation for genocide?

The idea of transgender Christianity shocks people on both sides of the divide: conservative religious reject any kind of gender variance and the LGBT community can be suspicious of organized religion. In all of this, trans-Christians are forging a new spirituality.

Nothing like dropping in a lot of trigger-happy hired guns to win hearts and minds, right?

Since the fall of Secularization Theory, which claimed that belief in God would slowly recede in the face of science and technology, we still must ask: Is there a future for formal, organized, institutionalized religion as we presently recognize it in rapidly globalizing, postindustrial and postmodern world? Here’s what religion will have to do for humans to survive and flourish.