The Intelligent Design (I.D.) movement began in the late 1980s and died -- though some still refuse to recognize its demise - ...

What's the worst that you could say about, say, love. Or kindness. Or sympathy. Or generosity. I'll wait. It turns out that ...

The Intelligent Design (I.D.) movement began in the late 1980s and died -- though some still refuse to recognize its demise -- in a court case in 2005. What I remember most about it after writing a ...

The famous Protestant Reformation leader John Calvin (1509-1564) used to decry what he called the "total depravity" of humankind. It was rooted in the questionable idea of "original sin," which my ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.-- They came, some 70,000 of them, to the shrine here to honor the gods of baseball on Sunday. They were here at the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame mostly to offer their veneration ...

Responses have ranged from people outraged at the court's ruling to those happy about it. I am not a lawyer and, thus, am not in a good position to make careful judgments about whether the initial ...

There are two creation stories in the book of Genesis (they don't exactly agree). In both cases it's clear that God is in charge and is bringing the world, including Earth, into existence as an act of ...

ALMA, Kan.-- In the serendipitous way the world often seems to work, I'm here in the Flint Hills for a few days and reading a book that contains an essay by a man who should have spent a few days in ...

The core idea behind the religious/political aberration known as American Christian Nationalism is that God has uniquely blessed the United States. (Isn't that in the Bible somewhere? Clue: No.) In ...

Many faith communities maintain offices in the capitols of the country in which they're headquartered to be able to promote legislation and policies that conform to their traditions and beliefs. An ...

Many times in recent decades, I've written about the relationship between religious ideas and science. Quick summary of that: Each area tries to answer different questions. Science is about what, how, ...