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The internationally renowned activist talks to Katha Pollitt about women and driving in Saudi Arabia, a feminist Islam, and the chances for a “Saudi Spring.”

As contradictory as the gospel truths of California's digerati are the dogmas of West Coast evangelicalism, a melding of Jefferson and Jesus.

Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole's Sacred Trash offers a precious meditation on how the discovery of hidden hoards of history can transform our worlds.

The pope failed to take decisive action in response to clear evidence of a criminal underground in the priesthood.

History is replete with peaceful role models like the “Frontier Gandhi” of colonial India.

Scientists, Sam Harris writes, are the saints of circumspection. If that’s true, then with his writing on religion and morality Harris breaks the mold.
 

Are Christians in the United States fueling an under-regulated international adoption industry?

Declaring a global “orphan crisis,” US evangelicals ride to the rescue—with unintended results.

With all due respect to the First Amendment, we need to be careful about incendiary public speech.

Carter Vaughn Finley's timely new history contends that Turkey's development has been misunderstood as an upward march from Islamic empire to secular republic.