This is an interesting sign, but I think the main person in this piece is not telling the whole truth:  "But Harkins insisted that claiming no religion isn’t the same thing as being anti-religion....

I will be posting here mostly about religion, politics, and culture, but sometimes I will also about literature, and especially poetry.  I am one of those who believe that, sometimes, literature...

This piece is a nice one offering 100 books to read for everyone age 1 to 100.  It's fine, except it's missing, so far as I can see, anything about religion.  There's the "Autobiography of Malcolm X...

Nice op-ed by an academic historian about the value of experts.  Now, look: People who have spent many years marinating themselves in the peculiar etiquette of a particular academic specialization...

This piece, on "bivocational clergy," is thought-provoking.  Are more clergy today what we would have once called "part-time" clergy?  If so, are there any interesting differentiations between...

This piece is a nice one on the perplexities that Democrats face on abortion.  This is not really structurally or functionally parallel to the problems faced by the GOP, and it's also important to...

It's odd to think that conservatives in the US are panicking about the future of the movement.  But this piece suggests that they are.  It's not the only piece, not by a longshot; David Brooks's...

Thomas Byrne Edsall is a columnist for the NYTimes who seems to have specialized in recent years in gathering information from the academy regarding some newsworthy issue, and reporting on his...

We've known this for a long time, but speaking politically, the least popular people in America are atheists. This piece by Max Boot is a recent addition to the discussion.  He ably points out the...