Plus: Lawsuits over Christmas messages, Intelligent Design, student aid, club invitations, and many non-legal stories from online sources around the world.

Millard Fuller steps down as Habitat CEO after sexual harassment allegation, worries the movement will lose focus. Also, an adult stem-cell media conspiracy?

New deduction rules dump Blue Book for actual sales value. That could discourage donors.

The church has often left me bemused, bored, or mystified, but I can no more abandon it than I can myself.

Would the Spanish friars of California's historic missions have lobbied for the separation of church and state?

Syndicated columnist has criticized George W. Bush and Tony Blair for advocating a foreign policy of democratic globalism in the war on terror. Senior news writer Tony Carnes asked Krauthammer to explain his position.

Plus: Mr. Bean opposes British religious hate-crime bill, religious summit opens in Indonesia, Vatican condemns 'Christianophobia', Christmas dilemma, praying for the home team, and other articles from online sources around the world.

How perpetrators are more gullible than their victims. An excerpt from Cleaning Up.

A Christmas sermon preached by Jerome.

A savory collections of essays by Alan Jacobs.

The man behind the Geneva Conventions knew the heights of success and the depths of failure

Pastors breached Australian state's race, religion laws.

Tom Wolfe's new novel, largely reviewed as a satiric report on the sexual mores of today's college students, is fundamentally about the nature of the human will.

Plus links to 322 other religion stories, including a resolution to Denver's Parade of Lights dispute, Christmas as protest, the death of Carsten Thiede, and other items from online sources around the world.

Celebrating Christ's birth with saints of the faith during the actual Christmas season.

More than a semi-annual crack at irregular churchgoers, the Christmas sermon has traditionally invited us to worship and wonder.

Plus: Civil unions to proceed in California, the battle for Christmas continues, and more articles from online sources around the world.

The birth of Christ is only the final stop when meditating this holiday season. An excerpt from Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year.

Contrary to what some churches teach, it is homosexuality—and not its suppression—that enslaves people like me.