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New today from the Century.

Since recently reuniting, the Smoking Popes have been a different band from their 1990s heyday.

New today from the Century.

This post by GetReligion editor Terry Mattingly is a classic specimen of the genre: some great media criticism, with sprinkled asides of conservative boilerplate.

Here's an interesting clip in which Texas governor and presidential candidate Rick Perry struggles to respond to a question about the effectiveness of abstinence-only education.

If ever the phrase "unintended consequences" applied to a situation, it does to the epic story of the 18th Amend­ment and its undoing by the 21st.

Lutheran rocker Jonathan Rundman is nothing if not prolific. Here he teams with violinist Sara Pajunen to form Kaivama, a folk music duo that yields tasty instrumentals with a Finnish accent.

Do people join a church because they share its members' beliefs? This has become the putative ideal, the only pure motivation for church affiliation. But I have seldom heard it voiced at our new members' class.

In the midst of today's rancorous politics and the trivialization of religion in the public square, the death of Mark O. Hatfield calls to mind a different kind of political style and a different kind of Christian witness.