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If a new study is correct, Americans are demographically as religious, and as Christian, as they ever have been. But their denominational...

A new study raises serious questions about "persistent vegetative state," but does it matter?

Five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, we face many threats at home and abroad, yet our response has been mostly superficial and...

The stated goal of these prominent gay activists is no longer merely the freedom to live as they want.

THE JULY 30 NEW YORK TIMES gave prominent coverage to a Minnesota mega-church pastor who disavowed the Religious Right. The Rev. Gregory Boyd,...

The split in the mainline denominations is about more than politics.

HAS THE MPAA begun rating films based on religious content? It depends on who you believe. The one thing everybody agrees on is that Facing the...

The Episcopal Church's general convention has aggravated relations with the larger Anglican Communion.

Desperate to get citizens to move to the city and ride mass transportation, local governments embrace "traffic calming."

Mega-churches are not a phenomenon exclusive to red America or the deep South. They are most common in large and affluent suburbs and exurbs,...

As information concerning his demise continues to surface, the death of Abu Musab Zarqawi marks the end of one of the most accomplished mass...

So the United States has brokered a cease-fire among the warring factions in Darfur, and the U.N. Security Council has authorized the deployment of...

It will be no surprise if we soon see left-wing American clerics investing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with a mystical reverence previously...

On the Religious Left, the great hope these days is that the Religious Right is melting down over Global Warming. Liberal evangelical activist Jim...

In Silicon Valley, Google's moral code is a contentious issue. To its local boosters, Google can do no ill; but to critics on both the left and the...