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Gingrich’s Christian Right training.

What can you possibly say in response to Victoria Jackson’s Politichicks, a new right wing alternative to The View?

Makana weighed, in an instant, the pros and cons of pissing off the president and possibly torpedoing a flourishing career. Sure, he’s unlikely to be invited to entertain Obama and friends anytime soon, but no one’s dragged him by the hair to the ground, “ nudged” him with a nightstick, or pepper sprayed him at close range. He’s certainly mindful of the difference between his stage and that of the protesters, but Makana sees the same spirit of aloha—a spirituality lost, like so many Hawai’ian protest songs, on many outsiders—as animating even angry dissent with love.

Democrats press White House against siding with bishops.

A science writer and a science fiction writer walk into a bar and debate science and human origins.

Lowlights from Thanksgiving Family Forum.

The first time I went to the American Academy of Religion conference it really got my hopes up. This was the fall of 2006 and, with only a summer in between, I’d just finished college and begun my first year of a PhD program in religious studies…

Concern that administration will cave to USCCB.

Opponents of marriage equality may be celebrating too soon.

A conversation with composer Nico Muhly.