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  • Don't lose your head (scarves)

    Two Michigan Muslim women allege McDonald's refused to employee them because they wore the hijab. The kicker? It was a halal McDonald's.
  • Religion is poetry

    The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
  • Here come the muhajababes!

    How sex, booze and heavy metal fit into the world of hip young Arabs today.
  • Can't Darwin and God get along?

    Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic.
  • Holy Mary, mother of God ... lactivist icon?

    The Vatican condones depictions of baby Jesus at the breast.
  • Losing their religion, in Kerala

    A fuss gets kicked up in India over a social studies textbook that supposedly promotes atheism.
  • Disaster of the day: Too many women rabbis!

    Jewish religious leaders lament a shortage of men in the clergy.
  • Can I get this abstinence message in a medium?

    Kmart sells "True Love Waits" sweatpants but denies trying to promote the cause.
  • Make it stop: Abstinence-only education

    Bad news for those of us who think sex ed should include discussions of actual sex.
  • Vatican to women: No stinkin' girls allowed!

    The Catholic Church issues a decree against the ordination of female priests.
  • The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?

    My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit.
  • Wright's theology not "new or radical"

    Black religion expert Jonathan Walton on black liberation theology's roots in slavery, MLK Jr.'s "God damn America moment" and what Jeremiah Wright has in common with Gennifer Flowers.
  • The Democrats' God problem

    Obama and Clinton have trumpeted their religious credentials -- but is it really more secularism that they need?
  • You are the river: An interview with Ken Wilber

    The integral philosopher explains the difference between religion, New Age fads and the ultimate reality that traditional science can't touch.
  • Big Think: "Shalom in the Home" rabbi on religion in crisis

    Shmuley Boteach says "raw untempered masculinity has adversely affected our world."
  • Seduced by the Dalai Lama

    He may be a global icon of goodness, as Pico Iyer's biography reminds us. But is the Dalai Lama the political leader Tibet needs?
  • "God talked to me today"

    I was an agnostic who never took my family to church. And then, my son starting hearing the voice of God.
  • I don't believe in atheists

    Foreign correspondent and intellectual provocateur Chris Hedges explains why New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens are as dangerous as Christian fundamentalists.
  • How to turn white evangelicals into Democrats

    According to author Amy Sullivan, liberals don't have to sell their souls to convert Christian Republicans.
  • Are you going to hell?

    Former born-again Christian John Marks journeyed back into the evangelical America he'd left behind and discovered the promise -- and limitations -- of faith.
  • America closes the book on intelligence

    Our country is barely smarter than a fifth grader -- no wonder it's drowning in religious fundamentalism and political ideologues on both sides, argues Susan Jacoby.
  • The big secret about secret societies

    Step right up, folks, and read the one true guide to Western and Eastern esoteric societies from the Freemasons to the Rosicrucians. Relics, totems and secret handshakes revealed!
  • I'm a brilliant scientist and I fear for the world's fate

    I wish I could have faith -- at least for my daughter's sake if not for mine.
  • Irving the Snowchicken is coming to town

    Forget Christmakkah and Festivus. Our interfaith holiday involves a magical rooster who fills the children's pants with presents.
  • America's first Me Generation

    Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism?
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