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The week in religion, poetically.

Either through luck or just a familial trait of pure stubbornness, I somehow managed to avoid getting involved with any “ex-gay” ministries…

When the highest religious ideals and the right order of the world is the subject of conflict, how do you treat those with different views?

Proposed Resolution Warns Against Islam in Textbooks

During opening session, Mitt Romney falls flat.

To get the gist of this particular rite, we have to look at the story of Hajar.

The religious right’s new heroine in the making?

As press secretary for Concerned Women for America, O’Donnell claimed, “You will cripple the defense of our country if you lower the standards at all.”

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.