From Holland Cotter's article on his visit to the sunken churches of Lalibela: A priest, in white, stood at...

Rachel Barenblat at Velveteen Rabbi summarizes last Saturday’s Bloggercon session on religion and blogging.

The Catholic Church understands far better than patients’ rights advocates do how religion, gender and sexuality work in society....

Amy Levin:  While the image of Oprah endorsing transcendental meditation is about as banal as a priest offering the...

James Curcio at Modern Mythology on Kony2012 and "virality": You see, for something to become "viral" it has to...

It's been more than a decade since the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal rocked Boston.  In that time, Survivors...

From Andrew Hartman's recent post at U.S. Intellectual History, "The Politics of Epistemology," in which he excerpts the...

From The Lancet, an article by Charles Stafford on Deep China: the Moral Life of the Person, a...

Comment by NYU assistant professor/faculty fellow Jeremy Walton on yesterday's New York Times article, "Koran burning in NATO Error...

By Mary Valle My last semester in college, I spent a lot of time taking phone calls from my brother...

By David Metcalfe   An urban youth lends no pastoral allure to chalky candy charms and flimsy cardboard tokens. Until, within...

By Anthea Butler   I used to hate Valentines day, until a dinner changed my mind. After a particularly ugly split from another fool...

By George González   No doubt, much of our contemporary consumer society is magical and ecstatic. This extends to our niche and...

By Genevieve Yue   A Valentine offering, lifted from the words of the late Edward Rondthaler, pioneer of the Rutherford photo-lettering machine...

By Jacob Glatstein Translated from the Yiddish by Peter Manseau My friend lives a satisfied life. He has a wife who loves...

By Stacy Doris Click here to listen to a recording...

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By S. Brent Plate   Love is not a shepherd's crook. I am not the great shepherd Reaching out to pull you in.   You...

There's much more at stake in the discussion about conscience clauses than who gets the bill for the pill. By...

By Irina Papkova The Russian Duma elections of December, 2011 contained many surprises, starting of course with the nature...

From an October 2011 article at Human Life International World Watch, a "pro-life and pro-family" organization dedicated to...

Peter Bebergal on Robert Anton Wilson, from a post at BoingBoing: So it is with great respect and admiration...

Be here or be square!  SPRING 2012