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A new book argues that spiritual practices, be they secular or religious, are inherently good for you. Meditation and prayer—be it about God, or evolution, or peace, or the Big Bang—will actually change your brain.

RD columnist S. Brent Plate crosses disciplinary boundaries to show us how film creates worlds, just as religion does; through incantation or special effects anything is possible.

Was Du Bois, leading African American intellectual and civil rights activist, an atheist?

Journalist Christine Wicker thinks that the influence of the Religious Right, now on the wane, has been disastrous for American Christianity.

Incident being investigated as possible hate crime.

Pity poor George Rekers.

Under fire from LGBT rights activists, the American anti-gay crusader claimed he didn’t know about the Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill, even as he organized an event decrying homosexuality in Uganda. A report from Sunday’s rally in Kampala shows that despite Engle’s denials of support, other speakers were calling for the bill’s passage.

Some unsolicited advice for the Holy Father.

After initially declining to investigate Ergun Caner, the evangelical university launches a probe.

Sunni leaders, despite having a supermajority within Islam still fear conversions to Shi’ism.