Boomtown Blues

December 31, 2006
Paul Asay, religion reporter for the Colorado Springs Gazette, teams up with colleague Dave Phillips to ponder the post-Haggard...

Are You A Golemist?

December 26, 2006
This interview with novelist Marc Estrin, author of Golem Songs, will probably only be of interest to readers familiar...

But What Does She Believe?

December 26, 2006
Holly Berman: The New York Times‘ David D. Kirkpatrick has been covering evangelicals and politics long enough that we...

Inside Christian Embassy

December 23, 2006
Sharlet: An exclusive interview with the chief of staff of Christian Embassy, the behind-the-scenes ministry in the news for...

Savages

December 22, 2006
Sharlet: In Rwanda and Burundi, the American press saw “tribal warfare” — ancient and savagely natural — in massacres...

On Faith

December 18, 2006
The Washington Post and Newsweek are collaborating on a new venture called <a href= "http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/"On Faith, a "conversation on...

He Just Wants to Dance

December 15, 2006
The line that really jumped out at us from the news of the New Jersey legislature’s vote for civil...

Something Other Than Saintliness

December 14, 2006
Sharlet: Matthew Teague's "The Aftermath," an account of the days following the October 2nd shooting of five Amish...

"Here and Now"

December 14, 2006
Sharlet: I was slated to discuss my latest Harper’s piece, “Through A Glass, Darkly,” on WBUR’s “Here and Now,”...

Kristof's Big Hitch

December 13, 2006
Rhea Saran: Let me say, right off the bat, that I respect New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and...

Out With the Old

December 13, 2006
Trouble ahead for the accelerating press narrative of a new “religious left”: American Jews aren’t just conservative on Israel...

"What the Fuck Would It Take?"

December 13, 2006
That's how historian and William Sloane Coffin biographer Warren Goldstein opens his report on the rise and fall and...

Smells Like Military Spirit, Part 2

December 12, 2006
Sharlet: I’ll be a guest on Air America’s “Rachel Maddow Show” tonight briefly discussing the potential scandal of the...

Dominos

December 12, 2006
The Ted Haggard domino effect.

The Trouble With Bibles

December 12, 2006
Holly Berman: Daniel Radosh, in The New Yorker, offers up everything you ever wanted to know about Bible...

Salvation in Uncertainty

December 11, 2006
Evie Nagy: This week in the BBC News Magazine, former Anglican priest Mark Vernon writes about the need...
Feature

Feeding Desires, Judging Sin

December 11, 2006
The Los Angeles Times offers simple solutions instead of making important connections between religion, sex and politics. ...

Free Thinking Penguins

December 10, 2006
Sharlet: What is it about penguins and God? Whatever the flightless, flippered birds do is taken as revelation of...

Mitt Romney's Underwear

December 10, 2006
Daniel Sorrell: In 1994 Bill Clinton was asked on MTV if he wore boxers or briefs. At the...

Somalis in Maine

December 8, 2006
Greenfield: In this week’s New Yorker, William Finnegan has an excellent piece on the Muslim Somali community in Lewiston,...

An Interactive Blog Experiment

December 7, 2006
Mitch Stephens, a Professor of Journalism at New York University, has developed an experimental new site in connection with his blog (Without Gods)...

An Interactive Blog Experiment

December 7, 2006
Mitch Stephens, a Professor of Journalism at New York University, has developed an experimental new site in connection...

Don't Ask, Don't Talmud

December 6, 2006
Josh Francis: According to the Los Angeles Times, an international rabbinical council may reconsider its bans on gay rabbis...

Secret Prayers

December 5, 2006
Peter Manseau: "Did Pope Benedict XVI pray in the Aya Sofia? How could we really know? Prayer, after all,...

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