An ethicist and an anthropologist ask: How much is too much?

As CC books editor, I get to peruse a lot of books. Too bad I can’t review them all.

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The larger context to this question might actually surprise you.

The television series Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly will end its run of 20 years on PBS on February 24.

Bob Abernethy, a broadcast journalist who is a member of the United Church of Christ denomination, started the series and hosted it.

Writing for the Christian Century in 2000, Abernethy said religious pluralism presented “the greatest challenge of all the thousand or more stories we have reported.”

While the Romans were broadcasting fake news about the emperor as savior, God was at work elsewhere.

If we are to understand the delivering power of Jesus’ coming and presence on the earth, we must un-domesticate the Jesus story.

When President Obama signed a newly strengthened international religious freedom act, the intention was to protect religious believers around the world.

But the act, signed December 16, is being heralded by some legal scholars as a different milestone—for the first time, atheists and other nonreligious people are explicitly named as a class protected by the law.

Moscow artist Paul Solovyev, or 0x17, creates art that intentionally throws viewers off balance. His works turn the familiar inside out as the artist considers the nature of belief and the objects used to symbolize belief. “Is it possible,” Solovyev asks, “to repeat the phrase ‘God is not thrown down’ . . .