Taboo Dinner Party Talk

May 8, 2012
Amy Levin: “Aren’t these topics the very ones your mother warned you never to raise at a dinner party?”...

Our Sense of Knowing Better

January 14, 2011
From Genevieve Yue's "That Old Time Religion" at Reverse Shot: In 1799, Étienne-Gaspard Robertson premiered the phantasmagoria, a moving...

The Changing Court

April 9, 2010
Ann Neumann: John Paul Stevens retires. Read James Toobin’s profile of the Supreme Court justice from last month at...

Out for Stupak

April 9, 2010
Ann Neumann: Fewer Friends: Bart Stupak (D-Mich) who reclined in relative anonymity in the House until last November when...

Religion Litmus Test for the Court?

April 8, 2010
Ann Neumann: Don’t miss Sarah Posner’s post on religion and the Supreme Court justices, an issue that comes to the fore...

Not My Tax Dollars

April 7, 2010
Ann Neumann: A change to the Florida constitution — which has just passed committee and will be voted on...

Religious Freedom in Romania

January 31, 2006
31 January 2006 Forum 18 reports that a controversial Romanian religion bill set for debate tomorrow has minority religious groups (including evangelicals,...

USAID, Christ and Liberty

November 29, 2005
William Fisher, who has worked on economic programs in developing nations for the U.S. State Department and the U.S....

Under Attack

November 21, 2005
According to a survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League, “American Attitudes Toward Religion in the Public Square,” nearly two-thirds...

God Still Doesn't Like Commies

November 17, 2005
In the breath before the rush to denounce former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, for his courtroom statements that a)...

Newdow Files Again

November 14, 2005
Michael Newdow files again, this time taking aim at the “In God We Trust” motto on U.S. currency. Newdow...

Partisan Peace

November 7, 2005
Last fall, when church-state watchdog groups warned politically-active churches that overt campaigning for one candidate or another might cost...
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Everything But the Girl

November 7, 2005
“I wish I could vote so bad.” By Marissa Kantor On November 8th, in one of the fiercest faith-based...

Mao's Latest Bow

November 4, 2005
Between politics and religious ecstasy: Maoist believers in Nepal. Brad Tytel As China’s quasi-communist leadership continues to shed any...

Cast the First Vote

October 28, 2005
A Christian think tank in Bangor, Maine is mobilizing to oppose a November ballot question that could reverse the...

Rice Hosts Assorted Epithets

October 27, 2005
A somewhat baffling news story, about Condeleeza Rice’s recent hosting of Muslim community leaders for a fast-breaking Iftaar dinner...

Wrath, Etc.

October 26, 2005
Generally speaking, U.S. politicians’ and religio-rock stars’ explanations for God’s periodic, environmental fits of wrath are predictable: gay sex,...

Steele Hates Westboro

October 25, 2005
Republican Indiana State Senator Brent Steele said he intends to propose legislation in response to the antics of the...

Atheist Lobbyist

October 25, 2005
Atheists get a lobbyist too, in the form of Lori Lipman Brown, former Nevada state senator and the new...

Conservatism, Born Again

October 20, 2005
Can conservatism — or at least Bush’s variety of it — be born again? Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal...

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