Before we were fundamentalists

For a few years, before my mother divorced my father and married her second husband, we were garden-variety Christians who celebrated the birth of Jesus on Dec. 25, along with the rest of Christendom. I was too young to understand the particulars of our theology, but it seemed pleasant. Sunday school was awesome. We made church …

America is not digging religion

A new Gallup poll says that confidence in organized religion — though not Roman Catholicism — has hit a new low of 42 percent. (Confidence among Catholics has steadied after some rough hits around the church sexual abuse scandal of the ’80s-’90s.)