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Who do you want me to be?
A couple years ago, while watching television and rocking a restless infant to sleep, an advertisement for the website ancestry.com…
Remembering differently
In the ten years since 2001, every September has brought with it calls to remember the attacks of September 11.…
“How Christian Were the Founders?”
In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, Russell Shorto takes a long look at the Texas textbook controversy. Shorto comes to this…
The strange case of Texas’s textbooks
At Washington Monthly, Mariah Blake comments on the ongoing controversy over Texas's once-in-a-decade revision of its textbook standards. With standards for…
David Brooks outdoes Pat Robertson
A number of blogs recently have criticized David Brooks for his response to the earthquake in Haiti. Noting that Haiti's…
The best-of bandwagon
'Tis the season for best-of-the-year lists, and the Religion Newswriters Association has gotten in on the action with their list of…
Religious restrictions by the numbers
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently released a new study of "Global Restrictions on Religion." Pew casts…
Growing up evangelical
At Killing the Buddha, Kiera Feldman reports on a recent panel that brought together Malcolm Gladwell, James Wood, and Christine…
Regulating yoga
As the Washington Post's Maria Glod reports, a group of yoga instructors in Virginia have asked a federal judge to…