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In early thirteenth-century Belgium a young woman named Christina (who would later have “Mirabilis” or “The Astonishing” affixed to her name) died, apparently, after suffering a seizure. But during…

A handful of conservative groups are frothing at the mouth over the current season of American Horror Story. But it may not be over the sex or the violence, or even the sexy violence and violent sex…

Will they have gluten-free treats? Is white chocolate structurally racist? Are brown M&M’s offensive? Isn’t Halloween a pagan occasion? Why does that costume look pornographic? These weren’t big…

In the new documentary film The Armor of Light, gun control activist Lucia McBath goes to meet the Rev. Rob Schenck at the Capitol Hill townhouse that serves as the offices of Schenck’s conservative…

The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “ The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,” a timely one given the recent public tussles over the Synod of the Family…

“Would you like to appear on FOX News to talk about Israel and Palestine?” Sure, why not? If you’re going to go out, better it be in a blaze of glory. Going into a television interview, I should note…

This week I was a guest on the Center for Inquiry podcast “Point of Inquiry” to discuss, among other things, Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s appeal to evangelical Republican voters, and how Trump is…

Twenty-one religious leaders of various faiths gathered on the steps of the National Cathedral on Friday to sign a pledge for religious freedom and to call on public officials and political candidates…

Donald Trump, Saturday, October 24, 2015: I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about…

Two polls out this week show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump among likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers. A Quinnipiac University poll out yesterday has Carson leading…