A friend of mine, a cradle Catholic who doubts her faith, asked me what she should teach her four-year old about religion. "Everything," I said, "heaven, hell, God, angels, si...

On August 23, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth issued an injunction prohibiting the use of federal funds to support human embryonic stem cell research (ESCR), because it...

Last week I introduced the notion of "theological deal-killers," hypothetical events which, if they happened in the real world, would cause one to question his faith. While a...

The debate over the mosque at Ground Zero and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is of particular interest to me. I know Imam Rauf. Five years ago, he and I were participants in an interf...

I have often learned my most valuable lessons from my worst enemies. In graduate school I spent several years wrestling with the texts of the atheistic philosopher Friedrich N...

The reaction to my "coming out" as Jolly last week has been huge. It turns out that we are larger than we realized! (That's Jolly in-joke humor. We can say things like that. I...

Catching up is hard to do. It reduces me to elliptical reviews of new CDs, the merit of which you must accept from a few brushstrokes of praise from me, as space -- even in th...

Direct peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine will resume on September 2 in Washington, D.C. The announcement of the talks has been greeted with a polite but skeptica...

A certain gentleman I know told me that his young son is attending a private Catholic school that is run independently of the diocesan or religious order systems. He and his w...