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IRS Targets Adoptive Families

Bangladesh, Consumerism, and Original Sin

Tornadoes and Providence

Marketing Paganism? The Quest for Converts

"Star Trek" and Human Enhancement

Citizenship Confusion: Why the Boston Bombers Did It

Destroying What We Do Not Value

Gosnell, Infanticide, and Mercy

GetReligion

Pope Francis' "Obsession" with the Devil?

All popes have to deal with bad media coverage and global press frenzies. This week the Italian press went crazy.

Christ and Pop Culture

Hope for the Military Sexual Assault Problem

Acknowledging that the military has a deeply entrenched problem of sexual assault does not make you anti-soldier or anti-military.

Just One Thing

Accept Dependence

All things, from gophers to galaxies, arise and pass away in dependence on all other things.

James Wellman on American Religion

Monsters and the End of Evangelicalism

I mapped a Civic Gospel that had six interlocking strands that have defined and shaped contemporary Evangelicalism.

The Anxious Bench

Recovering the Ars Moriendi

In an age and culture where many of us will face both knowledge regarding our impending death as well as options regarding how to live our final days, the opportunity for ministry to the dying and by the dying increases exponentially.

Faith on the Couch

Be Not Afraid: A Christian Response to Anxiety

Psychotherapy, medication, counseling, prayer, and sacraments can all help in the management of anxiety disorders.

Friendly Atheist

Arizona House of Representatives Invites a Godless Invocation

Juan Mendez, a 28-year-old Democratic State Representative from Tempe, delivered an invocation before the House began its afternoon session in which he honored his Secular Humanism.

Faith Promoting Rumor

The Value of the Outsider's Perspective

The guest's question got me thinking about the role of aesthetics in Mormonism and why some images are acceptable while others are not.

Religion Q&A

Is Allah the Father of Jesus?

Robert in New Jersey asks: Is Allah the Father of Jesus?

Peculiar People

Joseph Smith, Same-Sex Marriage, and a Mormon Denomination

The Community of Christ, Mormonism’s most progressive denomination, has approved same-sex marriage through a democratic conference. Unsurprising, since Community of Christ members claim to be a “prophetic people” rather than “a people with a prophet.”