Note to reader: I submitted this article to Richard Dawkins prior to publication. His response: “I read it. Hated it.”…
Bracketing Easter and Passover, the Washington Post headline was meant to shock: “Religious membership in U.S. falls below 50%, poll…
Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni? Or, in English, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” This lament of Jesus (Matthew…
Palm Sunday puts you on edge from the opening scenes. You know the show will be nonstop drama. The script…
In 1804, Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Ursuline Sisters to reassure them that the U.S. government would not violate their…
It turns out the New Atheists were wrong. During the mid-2000s, American middle- and upper-brow conversation experienced what I once…
When editors at The American Spectator asked me to write a column for their exceptional magazine about the liberalization of…
Religious persecution is on the rise internationally. No faith is exempt from both hostility and brutality. The worst persecutors are…