When news broke in 1992 that former Catholic priest James Porter, known for years to Church officials as a predatory child rapist, had... Read More

"Disarmageddon” is what The Economist earlier this year called “complacent, reckless leaders” who “have... Read More

They read like scenes from a Marquis de Sade novel. A teenager forced to pose naked like Christ crucified while sadistic priests laughed at... Read More

In sixth-century Europe, unprecedented chaos gripped the dying remnants of the Roman Empire. As Europe entered a period of political chaos... Read More

Ours is an antinomian age. It is a time when people are “spiritual but not religious.” Young people especially are counted among... Read More

The LDS Church has been sharply criticized in recent weeks for its longstanding policy of requiring teenagers to be interviewed by male... Read More

The lively cultural critic Terry Eagle­ton has assembled a collection of ancient sages, Parisian deconstructionists, poets, classical... Read More

On July 9, Israel's legislature passed “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People.” This act was greeted with... Read More

A curious division exists among the Religious Left when it comes to the subject of abortion.The older, lifelong Mainline Protestant folks... Read More

Forty years ago the U.S. Congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act so that Native Americans could practice their... Read More

Many of our current political discussions have become reflections on liberal democracy—what it is, what it ought to be, even whether it... Read More

At this moment, 1.5 million people from dozens of countries around the world are in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to perform the hajj, the... Read More