Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly….

Just as the superstar pastor model can have its problems once the superstar pastor gets old or has a scandal or something, the house church model... ….

Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus ….

My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I als….

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own..

It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and….

If you're willing to recognize the religious element in one secular ideology, you need to be able to recognize it in your own..

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular ….

Even secular people can't really escape from the need to rest their ideas on some belief, some sort of commitment that is not scientific commitment..

Americans are an "almost chosen people," which is meant to suggest that there are clear parallels, literal, theological and everything else, between ….

The fact that institutional churches have gone into decline doesn't mean that we're going to enter some purely secular age. Secular people need to be….

I read a lot of G.K. Chesterton. It was a fairly conventional intellectual path to the Catholic church, I would say..

The thinking person's case for Romney, murmured by many of his backers, amounts to this: Vote for Mitt, you know he doesn't believe a word he says..

I think it is very clear that, though great difference remained, evangelicals moved closer to Catholics, mainline Protestants and evangelical Protest….