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Two Michigan Muslim women allege McDonald's refused to employee them because they wore the hijab. The kicker? It was a halal McDonald's.
By Nathalie Gorman
July 28, 2008
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The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
By Steve Paulson
July 21, 2008
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How sex, booze and heavy metal fit into the world of hip young Arabs today.
By Laura Miller
July 10, 2008
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Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic.
By Vincent Rossmeier
July 1, 2008
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The Vatican condones depictions of baby Jesus at the breast.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
June 25, 2008
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A fuss gets kicked up in India over a social studies textbook that supposedly promotes atheism.
By Andrew Leonard
June 25, 2008
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Jewish religious leaders lament a shortage of men in the clergy.
By Judy Berman
June 24, 2008
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Kmart sells "True Love Waits" sweatpants but denies trying to promote the cause.
By Annsley Chapman
June 10, 2008
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Bad news for those of us who think sex ed should include discussions of actual sex.
By Amy Benfer
June 2, 2008
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The Catholic Church issues a decree against the ordination of female priests.
By Kate Harding
May 30, 2008
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My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit.
By Cary Tennis
May 15, 2008
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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.
By Sarah Posner
May 3, 2008
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Obama and Clinton have trumpeted their religious credentials -- but is it really more secularism that they need?
By Walter Shapiro
April 30, 2008
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The integral philosopher explains the difference between religion, New Age fads and the ultimate reality that traditional science can't touch.
By Steve Paulson
April 28, 2008
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Shmuley Boteach says "raw untempered masculinity has adversely affected our world."
March 31, 2008
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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?
By Louis Bayard
March 25, 2008
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I was an agnostic who never took my family to church. And then, my son starting hearing the voice of God.
By Ann Bauer
March 22, 2008
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Foreign correspondent and intellectual provocateur Chris Hedges explains why New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens are as dangerous as Christian fundamentalists.
By Charly Wilder
March 13, 2008
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According to author Amy Sullivan, liberals don't have to sell their souls to convert Christian Republicans.
By Vincent Rossmeier
February 26, 2008
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Former born-again Christian John Marks journeyed back into the evangelical America he'd left behind and discovered the promise -- and limitations -- of faith.
By Louis Bayard
February 25, 2008
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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.
By Laura Miller
February 15, 2008
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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!
By Laura Miller
January 28, 2008
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I wish I could have faith -- at least for my daughter's sake if not for mine.
By Cary Tennis
January 24, 2008
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Forget Christmakkah and Festivus. Our interfaith holiday involves a magical rooster who fills the children's pants with presents.
By Christopher Noxon
December 22, 2007
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Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism?
By Laura Miller
December 19, 2007