Lunchtime in the Cafeteria of “Spiritual Anorexia”: Linda Stewart Ball, of The Dallas Morning News, reports on the four-day Dallas conference...

“‘In heaven there is no beer, that’s why we drink it here.'” The National Enquirer stumbles into Denver’s prayerful nightclub, The...

Crossroads in Sweetwater: The Sweetwater Reporter describes a recent group of visitors to the small Texan town: the prolife pilgrims of...

“Put on a church hat and I had instant class, a bunch of class.'” Annette John-Hall writes on black women, church...

Are media misconceptions of evangelicals about to start working in their political favor? By Kathryn Joyce After The Los Angeles...

A Moscow ruling bans the Jehovah’s Witnesses, after a six-year court battle over the group’s legal registration under Russia’s...

From The Washington Times: “More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung...

French-Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun recently won the $120,000 IMPAC Dublin literary award for his novel, This Blinding Absence of...

British football, writes the BBC’s Stephen Tomkins, “doesn’t just look like worship, it has taken over almost all the patterns of British...

“‘Our hopes are that God will intervene prior to the rest of us dying,’ said Clive Doyle, caretaker of...

By Jeff Sharlet: Religion in politics: David Brooks “gets it” as usual, and once he’s got it — the...

“Today thousands of Chabad faithful are expected to gather in Queens, N.Y., at the grave of Rabbi Menachem M....

The ultimate computation? Skeptic publisher Michael Shermer considers the latest figures on the probability of God’s existence (67 percent), and asks: “If faith...

The Holly King, God of the Waning Year, encounters the Oak King and usurps the reign of the year....

Dallas Morning News scoop: “A prominent candidate to succeed Pope John Paul II recently sheltered a priest who is an...

Holly Berman diagnoses a dangerous case of double dipping: Bestselling historian Niall Ferguson regurgitates his latest Foreign Policy “warning” for the editorial page of The...

Ever the multi-tasker, God has taken up the cause of the anti-EU UK Independence Party. At least according to...

Dr. Tom Frame, Anglican bishop to the Australian Defence Force, offers this mea culpa in The Melbourne Anglican: “As the...

The Islamist website that last Wednesday posted threats to kill American hostage Paul Johnson yesterday posted photographs of his...

In The Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy tallies the influence religion has on “the two greatest democracies on this planet,” squaring the Pledge...

17 June 2004 Basava Premanand, “India’s leading guru-buster” and “scourge of all miracle-makers,” has been burgled again, the BBC’s Tanya Datta reports....

Jim Smith of the Philadelphia Daily News reports: Federal prosecutors of Clayton Lee Waagner are demanding a life sentence for the “war...

–That was a good answer our friend made to the canon. What? said Mr. Dedalus. –I didn’t think he...

A bewildering report from the Norwich Bulletin describes the eviction of the God’s House group from the Moosup Manor housing complex....