The sitcom star and super-Christian is giving away a new version of "On the Origin of Species," and it's got Nazis
By Mary Elizabeth Williams Sep 24, 2009
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Should beauty of the "inner soul and spirit" have a place on the runway?
By Judy Berman
September 28, 2009
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Some religious leaders are pushing Obama for more limits on federal abortion funding
By Frances Kissling
September 14, 2009
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The progressive anti-abortion movement still doesn't truly value the life and identity of the mother
By Frances Kissling
July 20, 2009
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"God Says No" author James Hannaham talks about religious repression, life in the closet -- and sex in the bathroom
By Sarah Hepola
July 1, 2009
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The theocratic repression in Iran is a reminder that there can be no freedom without secular government
By Michael Lind
June 23, 2009
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The president has promised to increase religion's influence on policymaking. He should honor the late Ann Dunham by strengthening the wall between church and state instead.
By Frances Kissling
May 10, 2009
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In this witty book, Terry Eagleton argues that Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and their ilk are shockingly ill-informed about the Christian faith.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 28, 2009
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Every Sunday I sit in the pew, full of doubt, next to my conservative Christian wife.
By Cary Tennis
April 21, 2009
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From his undisclosed location, our undercover conservative columnist answers one of your most pressing questions: Do right-wingers really think that legalizing gay marriage will destroy our social fabric?
By Glenallen Walken
April 20, 2009
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At last, conservative Christians find the long-sought connection between same-sex weddings and mass murder.
By Abigail Kramer
April 14, 2009
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Symptoms of the conservative crack-up were on full display after President Obama's trip abroad. Bill Kristol, take a bow.
By Juan Cole
April 13, 2009
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Why do people worship religious relics, and why is the number of trainee exorcists rising? Two new books suggest that our desire to believe in magical forces remains irresistible.
By Laura Miller
March 27, 2009
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In the middle of Daytona's annual season of sin, I went undercover with a group of evangelical Christians trying to convert drunk partygoers. God help me.
By Kevin Roose
March 18, 2009
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The downturn is giving us new excuses for moral flagellation. But saving money won't save your soul.
By Judith Levine
February 25, 2009
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Everyone, from President Obama to the GOP, wants a piece of Honest Abe on his bicentennial. Here's where Abraham Lincoln really stood on the issues.
By Michael Lind
February 12, 2009
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Barack Obama knows liberals are upset he picked the conservative evangelical preacher to pray at the inauguration. And he doesn't care.
By Mike Madden
December 19, 2008
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I'm a Unitarian Universalist and she's a fundamentalist: Can this kinship be saved?
By Cary Tennis
November 10, 2008
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The Church of Latter-day Saints has pumped millions into Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage. But for one devout family, the politics are personal.
By Jeanne Carstensen
October 31, 2008
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A Christian news organization reports about the danger that illegal immigrants might get mortgage relief from the Paulson plan
By Andrew Leonard
October 3, 2008
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Sarah Palin's Pentecostal supporters in Alaska hail her debate performance and her rise to the national stage as the work of God.
By Deirdre English and Gail Sheehy
October 3, 2008
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The HBO host and comedian talks about "Religulous," his onslaught against the religious idiocy that threatens to deliver America to Sarah Palin and her fellow "space god" worshipers.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 2, 2008
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How to handle the fury brought on by this election? Register voters, hit the streets, pray. Stop talking about her. Talk about Obama.
By Anne Lamott
September 16, 2008
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I wanted to be the bride but I don't like being the wife. Now I face the toughest decision of my life.
By Cary Tennis
August 15, 2008
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Piercing a Communion wafer with a nail and throwing it in the garbage, as one crusading biologist recently did, does science no favors.
By Karl Giberson
July 31, 2008