A world-weary Baptist businessman I know likes to say, "Nobody will screw you like a brother in Christ." Meaning that there's a special kind of cynicism employed by people who use religiosity as a cover for dastardly deeds. I know......

FrontPageMagazine.com | Mark D. Tooley | Mar. 3, 2009 Activists at the World Social Forum (WSF), having gathered 130,000 anti-globalization activists to Belem, Brazil across 6 days early in February, enthusiastically decided that global taxation is the solution to the economic meltdown. Me...

San Francisco Chronicle | Bob Egelko | Jan. 28, 2009 A private religious high school can expel students it believes are lesbians because the school isn’t covered by California civil rights laws, a state appeals court has ruled. Relying on a 1998 state Supreme Court ruling that allowe...

I drove past Qualcomm Stadium every morning on my way to work  last summer. Home to the San Diego Chargers and the SDSU Aztecs, Qualcomm  is also the center for the biggest, most important, most popular events in San Diego. And in some cases, the most controversial. On Saturday, the stad...

Hinduism teaches reincarnation. Does Tolle teach that as well, or does he have some other view of the afterlife?   Tolle has said very little about reincarnation. Sometimes he sounds like he does indeed embrace reincarnation. Other times he doesn't sound quite so certain. His clearest statement...

Is there such a thing as sin in Tolle's worldview? There is no such thing as the Christian concept of "sin" in Tolle's view. He might use the word "sin," but he has radically redefined it to fit his body of teachings. What irritates me the most is how he makes his view about so-called "sin" sou...

What does Tolle think of Jesus? Tolle, like other New Agers, portrays Jesus as a mere man; just another avatar (or spiritual teacher) in a long list of avatars who were also “saviors� in their own right. All of them were mere “way-showers� whose purpose was to lead others to enlightenment—...

This is the first part of a four part interview concluding this Thursday.  Eckhart Tolle claims that what he is teaching is neutral to his religion. Yet many people are flocking to him as though he's a religious teacher. Is his message religious and how does it compare to Christianity? First, p...

Barack Obama is making a serious effort to woo religious voters, and not just those fringey lefty evangelicals Jim Wallis represents. He's going for Bush's evangelicals. "In my own life, " he said, "it's been a journey that began decades ago on the South Side of Chicago, when, working as a community...

Seriously, I don't get what the big deal is about the new discovery of the Hebrew inscriptions on a stone. Here's the story from today's NYT. Excerpt: A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from......