Sharlet: It's a New Year's treat to have my book, The Family, included on the top 10 list...

Why is Rick Warren being given a pulpit at the inauguration? In large part because the press has already...

Jeff Sharlet: Links to my favorite religion stories of 2008.

S. Brent Plate: In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, one of The New York Times most...

Every major paper covered the formation of the Anglican Church of North America, comprised of 100,000 now-former members of...

By Holly Berman Chuck Colson — Watergate felon, born again culture warrior — thinks we need more laffs, and...

Reading power lists -- those loathsome magazine compilations of the best and most publicized -- is a bit like...

Sharlet: Just so I can be a shmuck and say "I told you so" later, I'm siding with William...

Too many of the recent books about the Religious Left declare easy victory, the triumph of modest faith and...

Sharlet: D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power, offers this helpful corrective to a

Preaching two years after his downfall following the disclosure of drug use and a long-standing relationship with a male...

Jason C. Bivins, author of The Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism, and D....

Upcoming events: Submersion Journalism, Ten Minutes of Palinology.

The press played Obama's convention speech as MLK's dream fulfilled. A careful reading reveals the dream deferred. Obama's theological...

Leftist and liberal bloggers have been raising questions about possible connections between Sarah Palin's churches and a fundamentalist charismatic...

Sharlet: Little did I know that my recent book, The Family, was a sort of sequel to Upton Sinclair's...

Jeff Sharlet: There aren't a lot of readers out there who'll be intrigued by the news that Library...

''If you read a lot of Holocaust literature, all survivor stories are miraculous," says Jane Daniel, publisher of yet...

Why didn't anyone think of this before? NYT Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter Amy Harmon follows evolution into a...

Meanwhile, news of why Chinese authorities arrested NYC graffitti artist James Powderly in Beijing: this electric banner. Brought...

Who doesn't want to read Heavy Metal Islam, a new book by UC Irvine scholar Mark LeVine on...

Killing the Buddha.com -- god for the godless, cheaper than church, Allah in the family -- rises from...

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Sharlet: Bob Smietana, religion reporter for the Tennessean and occasional Revealer contributor, responds to my Friday post on...