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This Sunday is Easter. If you live in Mississippi, you're probably going to church. If you're Mormon, you're most likely to know what the holiday represents. If you're evangelical, you're most likely to think you'll live to see the next resurrection.
Philosophers and early responders search for meaning amid death and destruction
A 3,800-word doorstopper in Commentary magazine is slammed as an anti-Semitic hit parade
Michael Gerson defends Brit Hume's statement on Tiger Woods, says the real intolerance is in condemning proselytizing
Brit Hume denies proselytizing, but reiterates his advice for Tiger Woods
Our final push for pre-Christmas opinions yields some wonky, secular picks. And to all, a good night.
Tired of the Christmas opinion yet? Commentators have started losing steam, too.
Seinfeld's non-denominational holiday promotes the "airing of grievances," and bloggers aren't passing up the chance
Bad parodies, terrible puns, and ornament analysis: the best and bizarrest of the pre-holiday commentary
A bashful NYC Christian dreads coming out as religious to her friends
There's too much good stuff to wait. A daily countdown of the 5 best or oddest takes on the winter holiday.
English clergyman advises congregation to steal--in moderation
Michael Medved has an unusual take on a common Christmas complaint
Jason Peters tells how guitar-strumming Bible-thumpers destroy December
The NYT columnist has an awful solution to religious extremism
A report suggests anxiety and inequality drive us toward faith
The Mormon senator from Utah writes a spirited Hanukkah anthem
Why the atheist campaign to take Christ out of Christmas is anything but merry
Pundits stand up for the Swiss majority decision to ban minarets on mosques
Atheists have embraced the red-and-green color scheme
A stray comment about Israel gets pundits wondering if Palin expects the Rapture sometime soon
From Nidal Hasan to Khaleid Shaikh Mohammed, how can we mollify the threat of future violence?
The Catholic Archdiocese of D.C. vows to cut social services the the city approves gay marriage. Pundits think it's an empty threat.
The Vatican calls scientists to a conference on a pressing theological question
Responses to a British court case over Judaism and matrilineal descent
A 20-year-old was allegedly run over by her father for being westernized, and bloggers wonder at the lack of media coverage
"Sex with demons," "animal and human sacrifices," and trick-or-treat
Bloggers don't take kindly to the NYT columnist's call to crusade
Once an Al Qaeda hub, Indonesia moderates without American involvement
Commentators debate the implications of admitting married Anglican priests into the Catholic fold
Pope Benedict XVI made an historic announcement that could change the Anglican community forever
A project to cut the Bible's liberal bias looses an avalanche of opprobrium
Glenn Beck puts a partisan spin on the high Jewish holiday
A Guardian writer thinks that godlessness is becoming a badge for the elite
Would a good God allow pain? Bloggers respond to Andrew Sullivan's reflections on religion and suffering
Andrew Sullivan and a prominent atheist face off over the Book of Job
Why are they? Divining the ideology of a culture.
Norman Podhoretz takes to the Wall Street Journal to promote his new book and take down liberal America-haters
AllahPundit asks why he's excluded for lack of religion
Does his support of abortion rights represent a mark against his Catholic faith?
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