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Reason April 2008 Ronald Bailey |
The New Age of Reason Is the fourth great awakening finally coming to a close? |
Salon.com July 7, 2000 Jake Tapper |
God is their copilot Both born-again, Bush and Gore have made this the most God-fearing presidential race in 100 years. But their faiths have led these men in two completely different directions. |
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 |
Getting Your Religious Terms Right Can't tell the difference between the evangelicals and the seekers? Confused by the prosperity gospel? Here's a glossary to help you. |
Reason February 2003 Jeremy Lott |
Jesus Sells What the Christian culture industry tells us about secular society |
Scientific American October 2006 Michael Shermer |
Darwin on the Right Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution |
Salon.com July 12, 2001 Lauren Sandler |
Throbbing hearts and thumping Bibles Christian authors are staking their claim on pop culture's steamiest preserve: Romance novels... |
Reason October 2004 Cathy Young |
Beyond Belief The idea that U.S. politicians should keep their religious faith private may seem outrageously intolerant. But is it not equally outrageous that a secularist figure cannot express his views honestly without committing career suicide? |
Fast Company June 2006 Chuck Salter |
Moving Heaven and Earth When it comes to global warming, Richard Cizik and Jim Ball are hell-bent on making fellow evangelicals see the light. |
Reason March 2007 Cathy Young |
Enforcing Virtue If libertarians are seen as championing not simply freedom of choice but a rigidly nonjudgmental attitude toward all choices, then many people who might be sympathetic to liberty will be pushed into the arms of the authoritarians. |
Salon.com October 2, 2000 Alicia Montgomery |
Conservatives in denial At a Christian Coalition gala, Prince Charming, staying put in Texas, sends his regards by videotape. Still, the group stands by its man... |
ifeminists July 16, 2009 Jim Peron |
Marriage's shifting status...and gay marriage today Marriage predates the Christian church. The recognition of committed relationships has existed in all cultures, for most of human history. |
ifeminists September 16, 2003 Todd Andrew Barnett |
Free Amina Lawal Religious conservatives do not see the harm in conjoining both the power of the state and the power of their Christian God -- a joining which is used to people. The recent conviction of Amina Lawal, a 32-year-old Nigerian woman, is such a compelling example. |
Reason June 2003 Jodie T. Allen |
God Only Knows: The conflicting demands of wartime prayers You gotta feel a little sorry for God these days. The hotline from the White House has been hopping off the heavenly hook; the pope has been urging his flock to "persevere in unceasing prayer"; cries of "Allahu Akbar" echo from the streets of Gaza to those of Baghdad. |
Psychology Today Jan/Feb 2008 Bruce Grierson |
An Atheist in the Pulpit Public identity and private belief are never more at odds than when a preacher loses his faith. |
Salon.com August 16, 2000 James Traub |
Closing the piety gap With Joe Lieberman, the Democrats have someone who can take God back from the right. But do we really need more moralizing about private issues in public life? |
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 William C. Symonds |
The Fashion of the Christ Corporations like Sony and Time Warner are grabbing pieces of the religious music, movie, and book markets. Small specialty stores are losing business. |
Reason November 2003 Cathy Young |
Roy Moore's Monument Religion has a place in the American public square -- but not an exclusive one. |
Reason July 2007 Brink Lindsey |
The Aquarians and the Evangelicals How left-wing hippies and right-wing fundamentalists created a libertarian America. |
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 William C. Symonds |
Earthly Empires How evangelical churches are borrowing from business, ranging from niche marketing to MBA hiring, to lift their share of U.S. churchgoers. |
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 Paul Magnusson |
They Backed Bush -- And Expect Him To Deliver The battle over President George W. Bush's judicial appointments threatens to kick up a firestorm over the intrusion of religion into politics. |
Reason May 2008 Matt Welch |
When Coalitions Dissolve As the GOP breaks apart, some blame the vanishing breed of free market Republicans. |
Salon.com July 29, 2002 Michelle Goldberg |
Fundamentally unsound Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff. |
Salon.com August 22, 2001 Robert Scheer |
Dog days for God It's been a rough summer, taking the blame for senseless limits on stem cell research and killings on both sides in the Middle East... |
Geotimes September 2007 Nicole Branan |
Strange Bedfellows? Evangelicals and Scientists Join Forces on Climate Global warming is melting permafrost around the world, but earlier this year rising temperatures also led to the thawing of the notoriously frosty relations between scientists and evangelical Christians, triggering climate change of the political kind. |
Wired November 2006 Gary Wolf |
The Church of the Non-Believers A band of intellectual brothers is mounting a crusade against belief in God. Are they winning converts, or merely preaching to the choir? |
Reason February 2005 Cathy Young |
The "Values" Panic It's quite true that neither the "red" nor the "blue" states have a monopoly on moral values. By the same token, neither side has a monopoly on moral bullying. |
Reason March 2005 Cathy Young |
God or Mammon When religious groups in the U.S. get caught between their principles and their subsidies. |
Reason December 2002 Cathy Young |
Ecumenical Intolerance The sin of extremism is neither common to all Muslims nor limited to Islam. |
Salon.com September 14, 2001 Joan Walsh |
Too much God? When the Rev. Jerry Falwell blamed the ACLU and other liberals for Tuesday's attack, he proved he's America's answer to the Taliban. But that doesn't mean there's no place for God in our expressions of national mourning... |
Reason July 2008 David Weigel |
Soundbite: Pop Christianity An interview with author Daniel Radosh about his new book Rapture Ready!, a humorous travelogue-cum-study of the alternate universe of Christian rock festivals. |
Salon.com June 12, 2002 Joseph Shimek |
Refusing to be scandalized As Catholics, we must recognize the sins of fallen priests -- but not forget the transcendent meaning of their calling and our faith. |
Salon.com November 14, 2000 Holly Bailey |
Fasting for Bush As a nation waits, thousands of Christian activists are submitting their ballots to a higher authority... |
Salon.com January 13, 2000 Greg Bottoms |
Can gays and lesbians go to heaven? According to one evangelist, when the Rapture comes, some people are going to have hell to pay. |
Reason September 2006 Cathy Young |
Too Diverse to Be 'Diversity' Academic discourse surely needs fewer taboos, not more: Instead of closing off all debate on homosexuality, reopen more debate on other contentious issues. |
Scientific American September 12, 2005 John Horgan |
Clash in Cambridge Science and religion seem as antagonistic as ever at the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship conference. |
Salon.com September 3, 2002 John Gorenfeld |
Lights! Camera! Apocalypse! Washed-up Hollywood stars battle the antichrist and his smooth-talking liberal minions in the wacky parallel universe of "end-times" Christian movies. |
Salon.com February 1, 2001 Michael Joseph Gross |
Hard-wired for God? A Christian takes issue with a book claiming that religion is merely a trick of evolution... |
BusinessWeek May 23, 2005 |
Evangelism Gone Entrepreneurial Rick Warren believes evangelism means devotion to both social issues and God. The Internet is one tool he uses to spread the word |
Reason December 2007 Greg Beato |
Say You Love Santa Pop culture's war on secularists: Christians and heretics alike may decry the commercialization of the holidays, but when gift exchanges confer grace, and delicious turkey dinners are the gateway to piety, it's easy to have faith. |
Inc. December 2006 Alan Wolfe |
Guest Speaker: Worshiping at Work - Religion - Adam Smith Bringing religion into your company can be a test of faith - but not in the way you might expect. |
Salon.com December 21, 2001 Carolyn S. Briggs |
Seeing the light A former Christian fundamentalist recalls a life of ferocious, intractable faith -- and the moments it began to crumble. |
Reason June 2003 Sara Rimensnyder |
Data: Not Keeping the Faith As Osama bin Laden could tell you, religious extremism -- especially Islamic fundamentalism -- is a major force shaping world events today. But is Christian fundamentalism in America on the rise? A Gallup poll analyzed in the March Scientific American suggests a trend toward moderation. |
Reason October 2002 Cathy Young |
One Nation, Many Gods Vouchers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the separation of church and state |
Reason April 2005 Cathy Young |
A Wave of Hot Air A great tragedy like last December's tsunami might not be a good time for any kind of philosophizing, religious or secular---particularly philosophizing by safe and well-fed people about a disaster that doesn't touch their own lives. |
Salon.com August 3, 2000 Adele Stan |
God wins! Pat Robertson puts a brave face on for his Christian Coalition, spinning against press that Bush is not his man. |
Scientific American October 2006 George Johnson |
Scientists on Religion Theists and materialists ponder the place of humanity in the universe in four books: God's Universe by O. Gingerich, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by F.S. Collins, The God Delusion by R. Dawkins, and Varieties of Scientific Experience by C. Sagan. |
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Peter Savodnik |
Finding New Life as Faith-Based Stars From Stephen Baldwin to Kirk Cameron to Kathy Ireland, former stars are resurrecting their careers in the growing faith-based marketplace. |
Salon.com April 11, 2002 Stephanie Zacharek |
"This Dark World" by Carolyn S. Briggs A woman describes her ecstatic conversion to Christian fundamentalism and her slow, difficult journey out again... |
The Motley Fool September 16, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
God, Inc. Business and religion mix pretty lucratively in today's society. Here are some business plans and investments that prove it: Thomas Nelson... NB Socially Responsive... Courier... etc. |