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Why “spiritual, but not religious” is problematic and makes one academic want to punch those who say it in the face. Hard. Theologians are often open about their religious stance, so there shouldn’t be a double standard for critical, reflective atheist voices.

The bill to criminalize sex-selective abortion may be doomed but passage isn’t the point.

If three wacky experiments and a host of assumptions makes it so.

Preventing it from getting better.

That’s one thing the Cardinal has no comment on.

“I have to have the help of a lot of good people.”

In many ways, The Rich and the Rest of Us is political sustenance for the already converted to liberal and leftist causes. Quoting historian Howard Zinn and looking to the insights of filmmaker Michael Moore probably will not convince many conservatives to rally to the cause—and when Smiley and West rely on Barbara Ehrenreich, they are drawing upon a fellow dissident. Put simply, they are preaching to the choir—but choirs need encouragement too. This is what Smiley and West accomplish: they provide the Occupy generation with a text to rally around.

Obama’s SOTU was a deft combination of centuries-old American exceptionalism and a decades-old consensus that can best be called “semi-Niebuhrianism.”

According to the Census Bureau, white babies account for less than half of U.S. births. How will white Christians, who have long believed this to be a white Christian nation, respond?