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It’s difficult to believe that Newt’s role as critic of Obama’s foreign policy has as much to do with patriotism as with raw political ambition.

The word Islamophobia is used so broadly that it risks losing its meaning; fear is not the same thing as hatred.

How ironic, we immigrants sigh to ourselves, that we can turn on the tap to clean water at whatever temperature we like, but we can’t put up a poster of the Holy Mosque in our cubicle.

Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett—the new atheists are often out of their depth when it comes to real engagement with religious ideas. And what if the new atheism is not so much about theology as about politics?

The Vatican has thus far given the thumbs down on the Obama admin’s first couple of candidates for ambassador. One wonders whether the U.S. routinely allows countries to decide who our ambassador should be?

Having a lesbian head a transdenominational body opens the door to gay rights across the board—a little like wondering if an Iowa marriage will be accepted in Alabama.

Obama might mention the super rich, for example.

In the debate over what it means to be a religious progressive, the terms of the religious right have been adopted and a new way must be forged.

Overtly Christian displays are fine but respect is a two-way street…

Anyone even remotely interested in the 2008 presidential election is probably well aware of…