From the introduction to Witness, a publication of Black Mountain Institute, volume XXIII (2010), "Captured:  Writing about Film...

An excerpt from a recent article at MSNBC by Clara Moskowitz about the discovery of arsenic eating life...

From "Which Way Madness Lies" by Rachel Aviv in the December issue of Harper's magazine (subscription): [Doctors] have to...

Tom Junod, in the latest issue of Esquire writes (link below): We are not going to live forever. We...

In his review of Kenan Malik's From Fatwa to Jihad:  The Rushdie Affair and Its Aftermath, Dan Margolis argues...

U.S. postage stamp from September 1, 2001

From Bishop Wallace Benn's response to the press this week: Sir, Some media reports have suggested that at Reform’s...

From Jan-Werner Müller's article in the November/December Boston Review titled, "Making Muslim Democracies": In the case of Christian Democracy, believers...

Chris Armstrong at Grateful to the Dead takes up Peter Leithart's book, Defending Constantine, and gets a...

by Abby Ohlheiser The Bible says: “And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they...

Colin Dickey writes about cities and the dead for Lapham's Quarterly.  From "Necropolis": Throughout early Christendom, bishops consolidated power...

Writes BibliOdyssey: Regarded as one of the finest of all illuminated manuscripts in existence, the Ottheinrich Bible was thought to have...

The New Yorker's John Lanchester on former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair's new memoir, A Journey. On the...

From "Straight Man's Burden," an article by Revealer founder and contributing editor Jeff Sharlet in the September issue...

"My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order,...

From Brent McCracken's recent post at Relevant magazine about what he sees as a renewed need for old-school...

Chris Armstrong recently posted at his blog, Grateful to the Dead, a brief history of fundamentalism in America....

Eugene Cho at Sojourners on Anne Rice's shirk of Christianity: Let’s be honest. It’s easy to take shots at...

From Peter Laarman's post at Religion Dispatches, "Taking Back 'Big Government Liberalism'": So here is my question for religious...

From Burt Neuborne's review of Sarah Barringer Gordon's The Spriti of the Law, today at The Forward. When...

Dan Schultz, at Religion Dispatches, on why we've got a "stuck" economy: Now, the religious message is that it...

José Saramago, a Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner, died last month.  He was 87.  From Baltasar and Blimunda,...

Amidst budget cuts and a long, pronounced decline in attendance, the fight to preserve medeival churches in England is...