In “Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious,” the New York Times columnist tries to reverse the trend of a more secular society. But his reasoning just doesn’t add up.

Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.

The New Atheists gave blasphemy a bad name. But strong criticism of religion is still necessary, because many false religious dogmas have terrible real-world effects.

Get thee behind me, Casper ter Kuile & Co.

Suffering may be a fact of life, but we can choose how we relate to the people experiencing it.

Our favorite Christianity correspondent, Dan Walden, on the meaning of Christmas.

Well, he wasn’t a libertarian. Dan Walden talks Lawrence Reed’s new book, and the many modernities of Jesus.

On Eugene McCarraher’s “The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity,” a fascinating study of the ways in which capitalism, despite its purported scientific rationality, is really a perverse kind of religion.