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Belief and the brain
At Newsweek, columnist Lisa Miller comments on new research by Sam Harris, which finds that the brain processes belief and fact in…
Souls in transition
The Wall Street Journal's Naomi Schaeffer Riley reviews Souls in Transition, a new book by Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith,…
Obama: the first Jewish president?
Alluding to novelist Toni Morrison's sobriquetical designation of Bill Clinton as the nation's first black president, David Paul Kuhn argues…
Holy hair
Reflecting on the hairstyles on display in the photographs accompanying Mary Travers's obituary, Diane Winston notes the evangelical appropriation of the…
The new gurus
In the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times, Allen Salkin profiles a newly prominent group of young urban…
The theological significance of ethical wills
At Sightings, Joshua M. Z. Stanton discusses the value of ethical wills for interreligious dialogue.
Homophobia on the rise in majority Muslim countries
At Spiegel Online, Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Daniel Steinvorth report on the wave of homophobia sweeping Islamic countries and the…
Christopher Caldwell and the ethics of immigration
Steven Holmes reviews Christopher Caldwell's new book, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West.
Kennedy’s Catholic legacy
In a LA Times opinion piece, Tim Rutten wonders whether the bonds Senator Ted Kennedy was able to forge between Catholics…