In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

When there is conflict between what God requires and the demands of the government, each of us has an important decision to make concerning taxes.

Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.