Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre
My journey to Bosnia is deeply personal, and urgently universal. The war not only gave ammunition to radicals but it forced Muslims to question the compatibility of the West and Islam.
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Christian Zionists, Bibi, Obama, and Armageddon
Foreign policy from the Book of Genesis.
Read MoreRick Perry, the Christocrat Favorite for President?
A religious right favorite tests the waters.
Read MoreRand Paul: The Next Ronald Reagan?
The latest Bloggingheads.
Read MoreWill bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?
Many analysts misunderstand the jihadi message.
Read MoreThe Evangelical Sex Disconnect
Republicans attack Planned Parenthood over sex and contraception, but their base may care to differ.
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Debating God: Atheist and Evangelical Face Off at Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame had cause for its anxiety leading up to last week’s big debate between the New Atheist polemicist Sam Harris and the evangelical philosopher William Lane Craig. It’s said that all publicity is good publicity, but one needn’t strain too hard to find an exception—least of all in the history of God debates.
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5 Reasons Why the GOP Push to Defund Planned Parenthood Won’t Go Away
The religious zealotry behind the push to defund Planned Parenthood means the budget deal is not the end of the Republican effort.
Read MoreCPAC Speaker Admires Geert Wilders
On a panel called “The Shari’ah Challenge to the West,” shari’ah myths prevail.
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“Taliban Dan’s” Teacher: Inside Bill Gothard’s Authoritarian Subculture
76-year-old never-married evangelist Bill Gothard teaches a form of wifely submission that another evangelical theologian has referred to as “the basest form of male chauvinism I have ever heard in a Christian context.” Sarah Posner had the chance to speak at length with the controversial religious leader, as well as with critics and former adherents. The picture that emerges shows the risk, and the devastation, of the abuse of spiritual authority.
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