Tim Townsend of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch responds to the Religion Newswriters Association’s dull list of top ten list...

“It’s not the vase, it’s what you put in it.” That’s what Carlos Williams, the missionary hero of this...

It should come as no surprise that The Wrestler is a religiously-inflected flick — nearly every review uses “resurrected”...

Elizabeth Dwoskin details the collapse of a kosher empire for the Village Voice. This is one of the best...

Odetta, 1930-2008. “Some folks sing songs,” writes Richard Corliss in Time. “Odetta testified.” But Corliss gets one thing wrong:...

Sharlet: Emergent evangelical writer Tony Jones, author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier responds to my...

Marilynne Robinson’s “extemporizing on, say, Karl Marx’s Capital is often punctuated with laughter and blithe phrases such as ‘Oh,...

Gawker, as usual, brings us the religion news: The Rev. George M. Docherty, a Scotsman who advocated for adding...

Why didn’t any editor at the NYT Book Review flag Virginia Heffernan’s use of the term “Pentecostalist” to describe...

Leftist blogger Frederick Clarkson is wondering why conservative columnist Kathleen Parker isn’t being taken for the woodshed for her...

A Texas megachurch pastor offers advice on “how to move from whining about the economy to whoopee!” Gretel Kovach...

“Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people,” Patty Hearst, AKA “Tania” of the...

Kathryn Joyce: The World Congress of Families, a right-wing “pro-family” group that I wrote about in a March cover...

In his NYT column, Milton scholar Stanley Fish offers the first Obama/Jesus comparison that actually makes sense. Meanwhile, NYT’s...

Plenty of pundits pounced on Palin’s resurrection of failed Civil War general George McClellan in last night’s debate (apparently,...

Will McCain’s Palin pick revive his once-high hopes of winning Latino votes? Will mainstream media be able to comprehend...

“As the Bush era comes to a fitful close, and the American presidential elections approach, the Christian evangelical movement...

ABC reports that two of the books Palin’s church allies in Wasilla may have singled out for censorship are...

Evangelical Palin’s fans are comparing the governor to the biblical Queen Esther, whom her pastor said Palin took as...

The Family Research Council — Washington’s one-stop lobby shop for all things fundamentalist — is warning McCain that picking...

Dan Kennedy’s Media Nation blog points us to two helpful Palin perspectives, including a Pentecostal scholar of Pentecostalism who...

Beliefnet founder Steve Waldman‘s list of “what’s scary, what’s not scary” about Sarah Palin’s religion is a useful, if...

Sharlet: Fred Clarkson of the anti-religious right site Talk2Action told me a couple of days ago that this story...

Sharlet: The oldest continuously published magazine in North America — and the second oldest in the English-speaking world —...