How a Powerful ‘Ex-Gay’ Pastor is Chasing the Latino Vote
At a mini-mall Starbucks in southern San Diego, I’m staring into my coffee and wondering…
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Are You Doing Your Part in the Baby War?
A new book on ‘only children’ adds an interesting dimension to the politics of making babies.
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Protesting Yoga in Schools, But Welcoming Bible Study
When is touching your toes just touching your toes, and when is it an effort to indoctrinate small children in Hinduism?
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Debating the “Nones” Part 3
The author responds.
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The Demographic that Should Keep Rove Awake at Night
Imagine a demographic that has doubled its share of the population over the past two decades, is up by 25 percent over the past four years, now accounts for as many as one in five Americans, and voted overwhelmingly for Obama.
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Supreme Court Rules Religion is Special… This Time
The balance between the right to free exercise of religion and the right of employees to equal protection under the law is not easy to strike, and the Hosanna-Tabor decision doesn’t appear to strike it at all.
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Rent-Free Religion in New York’s Public Schools
When I moved to New York City just over a year ago, I started going to church. More precisely, I started going to the churches—dozens of them—that were located in New York City’s public schools. I attended services all over Manhattan, in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx.
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