An Art Critic in Ethiopia

April 22, 2012
From Holland Cotter's article on his visit to the sunken churches of Lalibela: A priest, in white, stood at...

Charity's Faith Problem

February 7, 2012
Amy Levin:  What’s wrong with charity? Well, nothing, if you’re Mitt Romney and your definition of charity is giving...

The "R" Word

February 2, 2004
There’s a valuable comparison to be found by slogging through this week’s New Yorker lead story (print only), by the normally-astute Jon...

Eden on the Block

January 16, 2004
In the beginning, there was a “time of innocence.” Pam Shaw, one of a few thousand Eves, called it...

Priesthood of the Press

January 9, 2004
From Jay Rosen‘s “Journalism is Itself a Religion” — a new Revealer feature: What results from the “relative godlessness of mainstream journalists?” Or, in a more...

Good Intentions

December 29, 2003
Buried in the Christmas edition of The New York Times was a story that might be characterized as the religion reporter’s...

Ch-Ch-Changes

December 11, 2003
Vanity Fair‘s Christopher Hitchens takes a loyalty oath; The New Republic‘s Jeffrey Rosen considers conversion; and The New York Times‘ David Brooks plays the part of the...

God's Gay Marriage

November 22, 2003
When The New York Times delivers a sermon, it’s usually of the secular variety, which is why it comes as a...

The "God Gulf" at The New York Times

November 12, 2003
In a bold attempt to coin a new catchphrase, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Timeswrites of the “God gulf” between liberal and conservative...

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