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This summer, the pope rested at Castel Gandalfo, his traditional summer retreat, urging attention to spiritual priorities, while the Vatican newspaper stayed focused firmly on earthly matters — the legal reforms recently approved in response to the current crisis in the church.

A “Christian nation” can’t see a Muslim building.

New Yorkers may be grappling with conflicting ideas about how best to honor the sacred real estate around Ground Zero, but they got nothing on Jerusalem, where a California-inspired Museum of Tolerance is being constructed on what is said to be the site of an ancient Muslim cemetery.

“There is no need for a novel to create even more tension and hatred against us,” said Maria Boutros, a 38-year-old Egyptian housewife and mother of four. The ‘us’ she’s referring to is Egyptian Christians, and the novel she’s referring to is Yussif Zeidan’s novel…

Winners and losers: that’s what we’re left with in the winner-take-all society. No one is suggesting that U.S. public education is not in need of serious research-based innovation; the question is whether staging a race by dangling $3.6 billion dollars over the heads of freaked-out and desperate state and local school authorities is the way to go.

If Eid ul-Fitr falls on the anniversary of 9/11, it will be an especially difficult task for a Muslim in New York. How do I, as an American and a Muslim, deal with what people claiming my religion did to us—New Yorkers, Americans, human beings?

But really, religious freedom still protects the belief that the earth is flat.

Creation is a heavy word these days. So, when it showed up in the title of one of this summer’s hottest science papers, it drew me up short. The word itself comes from the Latin for ‘bringing forth into being’, which already sounds pretty deep. But then it also has the…

Not a secret conspiracy, but an essential part of the conservative movement.

Fear is back, and bigger than ever.