“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”
LGBTQI ‘Equality Act’ enjoys broad support; there’s just one problem
Though an estimated 70 percent of the overall population supports nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people, and a new survey shows that a majority of every religious group agrees, there remains at least one significant hurdle.
Will Bibles designed for the Instagram generation get millennials into religion?
The Christian startup Alabaster expects to sell nearly $1 million worth of religious books this year.
Pundits repent of Twitter sins, apply faith to social media
A consultant for CNN and veteran D.C. insider who has spoken publicly about his Catholic faith says he is giving up Twitter for Lent.
Many U.S. Catholics question their membership amid scandal
As the Catholic church responds to more allegations of sexual abuse of young people by priests, an increasing percentage of Catholics are re-examining their commitment to the religion.
Why Rev. Amy Butler is talking politics, sin and loss this Lent
The influential Riverside Church in New York City is honing in on topics that progressive Christians sometimes gloss over.
Religion and polarized politics: An interview with Melissa Rogers and Peter Wehner
Two former White House officials discussed how religion has played a part in contributing to the country’s political climate in a recent “Religion and Polarized Politics” event co-sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics.
For priest turned professor, ‘Holy Envy’ is key to appreciating world religions
Barbara Brown Taylor writes about how teaching the different religions changed her students’ understanding of faith — as well as her own — in her new memoir, Holy Envy. She says the name of the book comes from her own…
NY religious and private schools fight to remain unequal
In the U.S. education system, civil rights battles tend to focus on removing barriers to quality schools. Not so in New York, where new regulations guaranteeing a “substantially equivalent” education have inspired a pair of legal actions.