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Yom Kippur is a curious holiday. Widely known, among Jews and non-Jews alike, it is one of the few Jewish holidays also widely observed among the non-observant—probably out of guilt, but possibly out of a vague sense that this is an important day, and fasting is an important thing to…

This week, the world will stop turning; or at least it will for the daytime soap opera “As The World Turns,” which officially ends after 53 years. But if we remember the soap opera solely as a torrid celebration of sexual transgression—or as a frivolous time-waster for bored housewives—we miss understanding something crucial about the relationship between popular culture and morality.

The less attention we give to the matter of niqab in European and North American public space, the more effective we are in removing it as a topic of interest…

The tea party loves Christine O’Donnell. That nonexistent God gap again.

This year is one of the deadliest on record in the Sonoran desert, as 214 people have perished trying to make the journey across the border. I rode with Brother David Buer, a Franciscan friar, and a volunteer named David Millsap, as we traversed the desert, loaded down with water, Gatorade, crackers, socks, and medical supplies…

Tea Party candidate makes a country club appearance with the religious right’s historian, David Barton.

Gun Owners of America believes she would help slow “the anti-gun, socialist Obama agenda.”

There is sometimes an unnecessary rift between leading ideas and leading people politically.

Will tolerance be the new rallying cry for religious progressives?