Killing the Buddha

Is avoiding the health care mandate worth fastening your clothes with straight pins?

God and democracy four years after Hurricane Katrina.

A good, religiously tolerant nation is hard to find.

How Christian fundamentalism helped turn Somalia into the next staging ground for Islamic radicalism.

King David as a model for present-day political power. An excerpt from The Family.

40 years after the Stonewall riots, what Bayard Rustin means for American democracy.

Donald Rumsfeld took the LORD’s name in vain.

Understanding the Republican disconnect, explained by one of the people who helped create it.

Someone might be tinkering with God’s voting machine.

An open apology to Sarah Palin. Really.

A voyeur, a thief, and Barack Obama at the Wailing Wall.

When a death becomes larger than life, memory hangs in the balance.

This Halloween, how about wearing a truly monstrous costume? A haunting excerpt from A Good War is Hard to Find

As the old saying goes: If you’re not a slobby activist when you’re twenty, you don’t have a heart. If you’re not a fashion plate by thirty, it’s time to go shopping.

Thus spoke Buddha’s mother: Fine, fine, be enlightened. But would it kill you to call now and then?

A group of New England Buddhists finds Zen in the art of panhandling–but at what cost?

What would Jesus do… about the president invoking his name?

In Sudan, a wayward youth faces the wrath of Mom, Dad, and Allah.