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The pressure is now on the United Methodists.

A 2012 Update.

Last week we spoke of the Osama bin Laden, a man who offered nothing but hate; this week, we lost a real Muslim leader, a man who offered hope, compassion, love, and humor.

Keystone state at forefront of the debate that features a host of strange bedfellows.

Bobby Franklin on the tornado victims’ idolatry.

I think some outsiders still think American Judaism is divided into Reform, Conservative Orthodox. In recent decades, it has become much more pluralistic, with several additional groups that could be seen as fledgling denominations and many others that are floating somewhere between institutional categories. On the other hand, some insiders believe that the American Jewish religious denominational structure has collapsed.

During my lecture I faced a standing room crowd of heretics, fence sitters, curiosity seekers, and true believers bracing for a circus sideshow. Traveling across America to speak on freethought and abolitionism during the 19th century, white feminist atheist Ernestine Rose was smeared as being a “thousand times below a prostitute.”

Bishop testifies against bill to parliamentary committee.

A post-Mother’s Day roundup.

His approach damages scholarship and democracy.