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For the past half-decade, Scientology has responded to withering attacks with a variety of aggressive and secretive tactics, drawing comparisons to the CIA and FBI. After a recent report alleging the use of violence, however, the church has responded by hiring an ‘independent’ panel of editors and journalists to produce a 20-page assessment of the report.

A new book illuminates the making of scientific frauds.

Theologian did not endorse bipartisanship.

Taking the pulse of millennials requires more than public opinion polls.

Is Stupak being marginalized?

Explaining the Beck strategy.

A scholar of Pentecostalism tells how an academic conference became a culture war battleground, and what she plans to do about it.

We can rest easy, knowing that our government wants us to be safe from forced implantation of microchips. But it’s not about civil liberties, it’s about dispensational paranoia and fear of the “Mark of the Beast.”

Conservative favorite challenging John McCain for his Senate seat pulls a Santorum.

What is the black church and what does it mean to say that the black church is dead? A provocative assertion and prophetic challenge by a prominent interpreter of African-American religion occasions a lively and varied set of responses. Updated with a response to those responses by Eddie Glaude, Jr., whose article sparked the discussion.