The mother of Jesus became an icon a long time ago, and in many ways her icon is more powerful and haunting inside our psyche than the icon of her famed son.
Frank Schaeffer has some big problems with fundamentalist Christians. But he also has big problems with the New Atheists.
Dr. Dawkins is one of what I call the Bishops of Atheism, people spreading the gospel of non-god. To him anyone who believes in God is delusional.
Are our morals dictated to us by a supreme entity, or do discoveries made by science and reason make Atheism a natural conclusion? You decide.
John Eliot Gardiner, the redoubtable British conductor, brought his Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique to Carnegie Hall twice this past week to p...
Islam and Christianity are indubitably the two largest global religions. Ideologically, they are very different. But if religion has often been part of the problem, it must also be part of the solution.
Other countries are on a future trajectory to out-compete us in science and technology. It's hugely unpatriotic to do nothing in the face of moneyed interests pushing superstition into the classroom.
The litany of sectarian killings that has been such a grotesque piece of America's "hidden history" is the reason that some of the Framers thought the First Amendment was so necessary.
Earlier this week, an enraged righty named Andrew Schlafly, fruit of his Blessed Mother Phyllis' virgin womb, together with some of his fellow pseudo-...
Justice Scalia takes umbrage at the suggestion that an eight-foot-high Christian cross, erected as a memorial to soldiers killed in military service, violates the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.
When conservatives squawk about the Bible having been twisted along the way by political bias, our first response should be -- they're right.
I wonder about whether the team favors religious players every time I see another Rocky show his faith by crossing himself or pointing upward after a base hit.
Time to dust off my Union Theological Seminary creds and weigh in on prayer.
Have you seen the pictures of the latest fires out in California? Check em out here and here. Firefighters taking the hills, copters and planes droppi...
Roman Catholic Priests are the surprising voices of clarity and conviction in Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story. They aren't ambivalent -- they characterize capitalism as evil.
You can't call yourself a Capitalist and a Christian because you can't love your money and your neighbor when you are denying your neighbor the ability to see a doctor.
An ear, a meal, a conversation, a strategy, a small but much needed service at the right time--isn't that what we all can give?
If I must accept a party affiliation as a label, it would most likely be the religious left. If that sounds weird to you, it's merely a testament to the excellent job the right has done to brand itself as the party of the faithful.
The rise of incivility in our time displays behavior that cannot be eradicated. At best it is controlled. Sane, civil people have always been the gatekeepers of mature behavior and the teachers of morality.
Palin has ties to a prominent pastor who advocates the establishment of a government regime that, in his own words, "may seem like totalitarianism" and would re-educate citizens in 'correct' decision making.
Gay marriage and our increasingly obvious interconnectedness present threats to traditions and ways of doing things that many of us think should change. In that regard, health reform is the new gay marriage.
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