Religion is serious and silly, scandalous and sublime. Religion writing ought to reflect this reality. Too often, it doesn't. That's a problem because religion is vitally important to billions of people the world over. It gives them a way to think about making sense of things, forming families, helping others, and helping themselves.
RealClearReligion.org aims to change this. We want to improve religion writing by highlighting the best of it, by giving interested parties a daily shortlist of news and commentary that they really ought to check out. We will cover religion in itself and religion as it influences those things that we can't avoid: religion and science, religion and culture, religion and commerce, religion and politics.
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