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“Dog Bites Man,” (i.e. nothing much happened), and it is news.

If you’re more concerned that somebody said “wanker” than you are that our democracy is circling the drain, you’ve got a problem.

Twenty Zen teachers in the West sent open letters to The Zen Studies Society in New York. With compassion and understanding, their general thrust is to ask that the Society’s former head, Eido Tai Shimano, not be allowed access to students—a strong penalty for a teacher.

Colson’s dishonest call for civility.

Evangelical self-help megastar Joel Osteen admits he believes homosexuality is a sin.

A mythical American history with Protestant sensibilities and heroes.

But dialogue is what we need most in difficult times

Anti-choice congressman says abortion is “bigotry.”

Mormon Republican grapevine hints that presidential prospects would be short-lived.

As Catholic sex abuse scandals once again dominate headlines from Boston to Belgium, and even the fast-track canonization of Pope John Paul II is marred by questions of culpability, the role of the Catholic hierarchy in enabling clergy abuse seems indisputable, admitted even by die-hard church partisans like the Catholic League. But what’s less understood is how these same patterns persist in today’s Church, where demographic shifts and a dwindling priesthood may be creating a new set of scenarios for abuse. The story of Katia Birge is a case in point.