From the department of “you just cannot make this shit up” my local Catholic Archdiocese is demanding legal redress (full PDF)…
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Having recently read a diatribe by one atheist public figure accusing another atheist public figure of having damnably bad ideas…
It seems a case of peculiarly unfortunate timing that after the Supreme Pontiff went one way in 1968 and the Supreme Court…
It is always embarassing when I get scooped by Hemant Mehta here in my own backyard. My hometown newspaper, the Edmond…
I’ve been seeing a good deal of overcooked hyperbole and half-baked analysis on the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case, and…
At least two aspects of the Supreme Court’s majority opinion in McCullen v. Coakley seem (at least to me, at…
The U.S. and China are notable outliers here, but the general trend is towards the acceptance of secular morality as…
By now you may have already heard of Scott Reid Esk, a local (to me) Tea Party activist now widely known…
The source data (via PRRI) are almost three years old now, no doubt in the intervening years things have shifted up…
I’m truly, deeply, sincerely hoping I’ve got some of the key facts wrong in the great Boston Black Mass clusterfuffle,…