Religion Dispatches
Buried in the results of a recent survey is the fact that secularists may now be one of America’s largest minorities—larger than gays or African Americans. Will nonbelievers, traditionally one of the most loathed demographics, begin to feel their oats and demand greater recognition in the public square?
Read MoreRevisiting the secularization hypothesis and Alan Wolfe’s Atlantic essay.
Read MoreA peek into the vexing obstacles to Muslim prayer in American life.
Read MoreA response to Randall Balmer’s analysis of Romney’s JFK speech…
Read MoreOnly when both sides of the abortion debate express their views will we find common ground. Restrained discourse helps nobody.
Read MoreA recent article in Time quoting conservative Christians decrying the split in the church makes it sound as if this isn’t the normal state of things.
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On Vanity Fair’s profile of the post-Roth and Bellow generation of Jewish novelists.
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Pastor Joel Osteen won’t have a home team advantage this weekend in the Bronx, but chances are the crowd will be with him. What’s this generation bringing to the Osteen brand?
Read MoreIf American Muslims do not oppose torture and participate in the conversation on American morality, they become a special interest group with little relevance. But within Islam there is a strong religious case to be made against torture.
Read MoreA USA Today op-ed urges evangelical Christians to change the terms of the conversation with gays and lesbians. But the end goal is the same: to change the homosexual into a non-homosexual.
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