In one of his final essays, First Things editor-in-chief Richard John Neuhaus discusses the varieties of secularization in America and…
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The virtues of godlessness
Phil Zuckerman, associate professor of sociology at Pitzer College, uses Sweden and Denmark as examples to counter the assertion that…
Seeing and believing
Jerry A. Coyne reviews two new books that attempt to reconcile science and religion, and argues that it is a doomed…
Will Obama be good for religion?
The Guardian asks experts what the new president will mean for America's faithful. Michelle Goldberg warns of the radical religious…
Mystical power
Philip Jenkins explains "why Sufi Muslims, for centuries the most ferocious soldiers of Islam, could be our most valuable allies…
The new faith coalition
Jim Wallis reflects on today's National Prayer Service, arguing that there has been a shift in the role of religion.
Obama’s moral impact
Father William Franklin of the American Academy in Rome and Glenn Loury of Brown University discuss the moral significance of…
Invoking Rick Warren
After objections to President Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the inaugural prayer, and a Gallup poll finding few…
A historic moment
From Andrew Sullivan.
Assassins of the mind
Christopher Hitchens on Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses and media self-censorship.