When I bought a case of wine from Moore Bros., I asked four eight reds and four whites. I told Susan, the helpful consultant, that I strongly preferred bone-dry whites. She slipped a bottle of Riesling into the mix, which made me balk at first, until she explained that Moore Bros. is evangelical about German…

Check out Elizabeth Scalia’s NPR piece on why she remains a Catholic, despite it all. Excerpt: The darkness within my church is real, and it has too often gone unaddressed. The light within my church is also real, and has too often gone unappreciated. A small minority has sinned, gravely, against too many. Another minority…

Myrna M. sends along this hilarious column — and I know it’s hilarious because I read it aloud to my wife at the breakfast table, and she doubled over several times — that relays news about the dude who signed on at a Nevada brothel to service female customers. He recently quit for lack of…

So says political scientist Eric Kaufmann, in his new book on religion and demography, which goes into territory Philip Longman trod several years back in “The Empty Cradle.” In New Humanist’s worrying (to them) feature on Kaufmann’s work, the interviewer asks Kaufmann to explain his view that contemporary secular liberalism contains within it the seeds…

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