Mediating Our Dead
By Rachel Wagner We have become incapable of sitting with tragedy and loss, and instantly seek to make order...
The Art of Living in Modern India
Jake Halpern goes to India: It seems like a romantic and clichéd notion, but I was very earnestly...
Who's Hot, Who's Not, Fundamentalism Edition
By Jeff Sharlet Rick Warren's real conribution to American evangelicalism is the perfection of the humble-brag.
Sex Abuse Scandals and Ultra-Orthodox Jews: Is the Internet the Problem?
By Ayala Fader The digital age has caused a crisis of moral authority among ultra-Orthodox rabbinic leadership as they...
Daily Links: Conspiracy Edition
Nathan Schradle's Daily Links. Conspiracy, man. Can you dig it?
When Jesus Said "Love your Neighbor," He Probably Meant Don't Kill Them...
Not whistling past the Nazarene’s call to real, risky love of people facing unjust, arbitrary death.
Where was Religion at the RNC? In the Foreign Policy. No, Really.
The convention floor was the village of The Scarlet Letter, where the elect and aspirants must name their enemies,...
Intersections of Religion and Media: Interviews II
In an ongoing series of print and audio interviews, S. Brent Plate talks to experts about the field of...
In Defense of the Coalition: Observing the RNC
Our lady in Tampa, Abby Ohlheiser, reports back from the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
Old Lands, New Gospels: The Science of Happiness in Uganda
by Amy Levin: Ever since Madonna and Tom Cruise carried the banner for Kabbalah and Scientology, respectively, New...
Intersections of Religion and Media: Interviews
Intersections of Religion and Media: S. Brent Plate interviews Jolyon Mitchell, Rianne Subijanto, Diane Winston, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu,...
That's Why They Crucified Him:An Interview with James Cone
by Joe McKnight I am sitting alone in this living room with the father of black liberation...
34 Years to Find a Mormon Voice
By Amy Levin We hear about the black vote, we hear about the Mormon vote, but we seldom-to-never...
Race and Radical Welcome
By Becky Garrison
According to ABC News/Washington Post polls, for the first time, strong public support for same-sex marriage...
Hallelujah, We're Born Again!
Back in 2003, when dinosaurs roamed the Internet, The Revealer was pretty novel.
Perverse Mission? Catholic Approaches to Foreign Policy
Reverse Mission: Transnational Religious Communities and the Making of US Foreign Policy
By Timothy Byrnes.
Georgetown University Press, 2001.
216 pp.
by Frances...
Nigeria's Islamiyya Schools: Global Project, Local Target
By Alex Thurston
This is the fourth post in a series on Islamic education in Northern Nigeria. The first post...
"Traditional" and Reformist Practices: Advanced Islamic Education in Northern Nigeria
This post is the third in a series on Muslim schooling in Northern Nigeria. The first post gave an...
Manufacturing Visions:A Review of "The Virgin, the Copts and Me"
By Abhimanyu Das
Namir Abdel Messeeh's highly entertaining documentary The Virgin, the Copts and Me is a curious beast,...
The Poets of Srebrenica
by Janaki Challa
“Countless contradictory analyses have seen the light of day about the ensuing bloody events in the territory of...
Northern Nigeria: Qur'anic Schooling and the Almajirai
by Alex Thurston
This is the second post in a series on Muslim education in Northern Nigeria. Read the first...
Rolling the Dice: The Orthodox Church's "Bet" on Putin
by Irina Papkova
The recent Russian elections have highlighted the complicated relationship between the Orthodox Church with both state...
So Long, Rowan Williams
What does Rowan Williams's resignation mean for American Anglicans?
By Daniel Schultz
Word reached us lately that the eyebrows of the...
The Pope Has Left the Island
By Nora Connor
Pope...