Marxists for Christ

December 30, 2003
“A specter has been haunting Marxism,” writes Eugene McCarraher — “the specter of Christianity.” The heavyweights of Marxist academe (they still...

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...

God, Superstar

December 23, 2003
Barbara Nicolosi was reading screenplays for a Christian movie production company when she experienced an epiphany: “Somewhere around the 200th...

Open and Closed

December 22, 2003
“Only nine people are in church tonight, and all but two of us have come alone. As we sing...

The Samson Effect

December 18, 2003
To shave or not to shave, that was the question Saddam Hussein‘s captors faced; and the answer, writes The Washington Post‘s Philip...

British Patriotism

December 17, 2003
Much debate around the legislation known as the Patriot Acts has focussed on whether they will lead to civil liberties violations....

Civil War?

December 17, 2003
Albany; Pittsburgh; San Joaquin; South Carolina; Florida, Central Florida, and Southwest Florida; Dallas and Fort Worth; Quincy and Springfield...

My Little Red String

December 16, 2003
Paris Hilton and many Orthodox Jewish women from Brooklyn’s Boro Park share at least one fashion accessory — a little...

Guantanamos All Around

December 16, 2003
British novelist Margaret Drabble calls Guantanamo “the Bastille of America,” and the imprisonment without trial of Muslims there one of the...

Constitutional Christ

December 15, 2003
Now that a European constitution has been scuttled by more worldly concerns, the question of which gods (if any) should...

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...

"Like Moby-Dick Without the Whale"

December 9, 2003
Such is any attempt to talk about the whole of American history without talking about Jonathan Edwards, according to historian George...

2003 Gospel Album of the Year?

December 8, 2003
You won’t find too many surprises in the Grammy gospel nominations, just released last week, but for this — Outkast, which...

Groundhog Revelations

December 8, 2003
God may have gone missing (or not), but there’s no doubting the mighty omnipresence of religion — it’s on...

Hellmouth

December 4, 2003
Just after the war in Bosnia, a priest showed Rose Marie Berger a cross erected on a hillside. One side depicted...

Pictures of Heaven

December 4, 2003
Iranian photographer Hengameh Golestan’s name means, literally, “spectacular rose garden,” a fact she notes in a feature for the Irish...

Hurts So Good

December 3, 2003
Ramadan is over, and Christmas is coming; so who better to celebrate the season than a Buddhist named Jesse Maceo...

Another Schism, Another Story

December 3, 2003
“Compared to the upcoming [Supreme Court] case on the Pledge of Allegiance and the use of the words ‘under...

Angels in the Material World

December 2, 2003
The angels — or, at least, the critics — are already singing the praises of HBO’s yet-to-air, six-hour adapatation...

The Oozing Church

December 1, 2003
“A few years back,” writes Alan Rifkin in The Los Angeles Times Magazine, “a mentally ill man wandered on the campus [of Fuller...

Christianity

November 30, 2003
The Protestant press Christianity Today — Conservative evangelical ideas and news in a smart, thoughtful magazine — the New Yorker of evangelical...

Buddhism

November 30, 2003
Tricycle is the best magazine about Buddhism for non-Buddhists. Most mainstream Buddhist publications mix dry dissections of the teachings with...

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