Evangelical Leaders Sound Off on Immigration Reform

On Monday a bipartisan group of senators released a framework for broad immigration reform that includes a conditional path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. The senators’ framework emerges two weeks after the Evangelical Immigration Table, an...

Religious College Tackles 21st Century Atheism Head On

It’s an attempt, says the Rev. Scott Lewis, for people of faith to understand and come to terms with the increasingly muscular secularism and atheism that has arisen in Western societies over the past generation. Talk about an unlikely course in an unlikely place. The...

Atheist Loses Supreme Court Appeal Over Ill. Cross

An atheist has lost his final battle over an 11-story cross in Southern Illinois. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Robert Sherman’s case against a $20,000 state grant used to renovate the Bald Knob Cross of Peace Southeast of St. Louis. Sherman first sued in...

‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Tortures the Truth About Interrogations

Nothing was tortured more in the making of Kathryn Bigelow’s film Zero Dark Thirty than the truth about torture. While it’s just a movie, it runs the risk of becoming the basis for a false view of reality for millions of moviegoers who have largely ignored a decade of...