Mark Movsesian

How religious were the Athenians? Very.  Continue Reading »

A serious campaign is underway in Scandinavia to ban the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. A Danish doctors’ association says that, unless medically indicated, circumcision is a kind of child abuse. A Swedish medical association recommends setting the minimum age for the procedure at 12 . . . . Continue Reading »

She means it as a compliment. At OnFaith, author Diana Butler Bass writes that President Barack Obama is reinventing American civil religion for the spiritual-but-not-religious age. It is “obvious,” she writes, “that the God of Obama’s public speech is not the God of previous . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a great piece by the Week’s Michael Brendan Dougherty on the persecution of Mideast Christians. Doughtery offers an explanation for why the human rights community in the West is largely ignoring the problem: Western activists and media have focused considerable outrage at . . . . Continue Reading »

A Chagall Exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York Continue Reading »

This semester, the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s Law School and Villanova Law School are teaming up to host the Joint Colloquium in Law and Religion. The course invites leading law and religion scholars to make presentations to . . . . Continue Reading »

 Reader John McGinnis passes along this delightful old recording of an 18th Century ballad about a pliable priest, The Vicar of Bray. Some of you, particularly readers in the UK, may already know the song. It concerns an Anglican clergyman who manages to survive the shifting . . . . Continue Reading »

I greatly admire Jonathan Haidt’s work on moral psychology, particularly his recent book, The Righteous Mind, on the differing moral intuitions of conservatives and liberals. So I was intrigued by a recent test Haidt published in Time—a series of questions that, Haidt says, . . . . Continue Reading »

[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”480”] Photo from the Huffington Post[/caption]A “Pastafarian” has taken the oath of office for the town council in Pomfret, New York, wearing a colander on his head. From the Huffington Post:The newly-elected . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s an odd story, from The Independent:Christianity dominates the United Nations and a more inclusive system must be introduced at the world peace-making organisation, according to a new study.The report Religious NGOs and The United Nations found that Christian NGOs are . . . . Continue Reading »