The other night Jon Stewart was right to rip on Rick Santorum. Saying that President John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on religious equality made him want to throw up evidences more than we need to know about Santorum's cognitive taste buds.

Why the nausea? Santorum took Kennedy...

Of course interracial marriage - or, for that matter, interracial anything - isn't immoral.

Once again, what gets conservative Christians all worked up turns out to be quite wrong and just plain bizarre.

In the case of the Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church in Kentucky, and its...

David Eagleman's "Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain," is a book that has so startled me, it has brought upon an existential crisis. Eagleman's central thesis is that the brain is "mostly a closed system" and "the conscious mind has little access to the giant and mysterious...

I was never too interested in watching Chris Hansen's program, To Catch a Predator. If you aren't familiar with it, premiering in 2004 and running until 2007, Hansen and his team would lure child-molesters prowling the internet to a house where Hansen would be waiting with a camera...

New York State's recent decision to legalize same-sex marriage is the next step in the inevitable: its growing moral acceptance nationwide. Now the Rhode Island Senate just passed its own bill allowing same-sex couples to enter civil unions. There's still a majority of states to change...

I want to delete my Facebook profile. I'll probably do it by the time I finish this article. It's not really because I've considered what Jesus would do if he would have been born into today's world of social media. But, especially with Easter around the corner, it is an...

It'll seem a little odd, at first glance, to imagine that recently proposed limitations on abortion by newly elected lawmakers could have us, on the same moral assumption, restricting gun laws, but there's an interesting parallel. In fact, the application extends not only to gun use but, as...

Perhaps in response to Stephen Hawking's own recent declaration that God isn't necessary for explaining the existence of the universe, Pope Benedict wants to remind everybody that the church's voice remains as necessary and vital as ever in addressing the fundamental matters of life.

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