“What really makes these critics hate Million Dollar Baby is not its supposedly radical politics — which are nonexistent — but...

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

12 January 2006 Sharlet: Lest anyone think my taste for stupid dick jokes is limited to making fun offundamentalist swordsmen,...

Alan Elsner of the San Diego Union-Tribune misses at least one culture-warring beat in his report on The Bible...

Jeff Sharlet: Are U.S. military chaplains promoting homophobia and discrimination against non-Christian women on taxpayer time? The New York...

Intelligent Design earns another foe, this time from a less-obvious place. Fr. George Coyne, director of the Vatican Observatory...

Chris McGreal of The Guardian reports on the plans of Israeli’s oldest English-language paper, The Jerusalem Post, to launch...

Zain Shauk writes: In describing a Muslim father’s concerns about his daughters’ virtue, Robert King of the Indianapolis Star writes, “the Abdur-Rahmans have not...

The Church of No Questions How do you get shown the door at one of America’s most powerful megachurches?...

There’s just no good term for the cultural movement and political force variously referred to as the “Christian Right,”...

Mainline Protestants fight back: NYT “conservative beat” reporter David D. Kirkpatrick, with Sheryl Gay Stolberg, bring us signs of a liberal Christianity gearing...

Sharlet: Daschle defeater John Thune cites spiritual influence of a man who cites spiritual model of Osama Bin Laden....

While most of the press gets giddy over the revelation that Bush smoked pot (’cause, y’know, coke is for...