Zachary Zahos '15 contemplates religion in film.

Daveen Koh looks at the latest Johnson exhibit, which explores the darker side of religious iconography.

Judah Bellin '12 calls for a reassessment of the role of religion in the culture of intellectual and economic success. 

The Diwan Foundation, an alumni-sponsored organization that supports Islamic activities on campus, plans to bring an Islamic chaplaincy to Cornell.

43.1 percent of Americans attend church about once a week. Estimates say Cornell students' attendance number is similar.

Chuck Guzak law discusses the public mania over the potential use of Sharia courts on American soil.

Mathew Sevin '11 juxtaposes the hustle and bustle of undergrad life with the quiet atonement that's called for on Yom Kippur.

Jake Friedman '11 travelled to Washington D.C. last weekend to take in Glenn Beck's bally-hooed "Restoring Honor" rally. But what he found is far from honorable.

The Passover Haggadah (storybook) exhorts us to view ourselves as though we were liberated from Egypt. How do we experience freedom in a society as comfortable and complacent as ours?

Since Passover is a religious holiday — it celebrates God’s deliverance of the Jewish people — we should focus on religious freedom. Since, furthermore, God delivered his people to bring them to the land “flowing with milk and honey,” it is even more appropriate to compare our religious freedoms with Israel’s, to understand what we have here.

Just before his ascension to the head of the Catholic world in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI — then Joseph Ratzinger, the dean of the College of Cardinals — railed against moral relativism in modern society. He has returned to this rebuke often, blaming “the dictatorship of relativism” for the prevalence of all kinds of sins that the Catholic Church’s hard-line conservative base perceives.