British power, both “hard” and “soft,” helped shape the modern world.

Religion matters—on both sides of the global mass migration.

Claiming a religious identity in America is still politically useful.

Conservative opponents are challenging the Pope over the sovereignty of an old and storied order.

Americans were sexually innovative long before the ’60s—just consider the Mormons.

There is an old European culture that may be a resource for dialogue about Islamic modesty: the cult of chivalry.

What are the minimal experiences that lead one to suspect there may be something to religion after all?

In an honest dialogue between religions, does one sometimes have to say “no”?

The exodus from the ”enchanted garden” of medieval Catholicism was an important factor in the genesis of modernity.

Recently, both political camps have been lustily promoting fantasies.