Dumb Monkey Nation Bush has “roiled” the evolution debate with his comments that “both sides” of the question should be taught...

Slut for Faith A self-described “slut for faith” offers a tip for marital bliss: Don’t fake it. That is, don’t get...

BAGnewsNotes looks beyond the veneer of St. Frist’s would-be martyrdom.

The Revealer is pleasantly incommunicado. We’ll return July 25th.

Bernard Goldberg became a hero of the right when he published Bias, his insider account of what he argues...

Don’t run, Hillary, don’t run: Amy Sullivan: “Jill Lawrence, one of USA Today‘s campaign correspondents in 2004, has observed...

Neil Young, Superstar: Doug LeBlanc at Get Religion is reporting that Neil Young and NPR are teaming up to...

Christianity Ha-Ha: In about 36 hours, 1,000 pastors from around the country are coming to my megachurch, where I...

Noah Feldman‘s carefully-reasoned essay on the church/state dilemma of American politics, excerpted from his new book, Divided by God:...

Sharlet: This fall, I’ll be teaching The Revealer as a text and as an assignment for a group of...

Confusing news from the Jewish Forward: the National Association of Evangelicals is set to announce a new, more pro-Palestinian...

30 June 2005 Southern Baptist Big Ponders the Young and the Sexless By Jeff Sharlet R. Albert Mohler, Jr.,...

Night Train to Marrakech Reza Aslan on the clash of monotheisms as seen from the cramped quarters of a sleeper car....

Not Another “Beliefs” Column Diane Winston’s occasional column on the gods of Los Angeles in The L.A. Times continues to besubtly...

Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of conservative American evangelicalism,editorializes “the obvious”: George W. Bush is not Lord, and “God...

Miracle Meter Former Revealer Kathryn Joyce calls our attention to this startling “miracle” news:Ethiopian lions with feminist tendencies rescue 12-year-old girl from...

Fantastic Iraq 1,001 Nights in Iraq: Fantasy space stations and the “Book of Dragons” and Magic playing cards, amazing...

You Get the Gods You Deserve Matt Taibbi as Jeremiah, with new Lamentations for the present moment: “America is dying. You could...

Democrats and Gothics 17 June 2005 In a forthright 16-year-old girl from Queens, writes the NYT‘s Nina Bernstein, the FBI “met...

Eat God Now Our favorite kind of religion is the kind you can eat. “And then God revealed to...

I’m Ok, The Pope’s Ok Ann Rodgers, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s smart religion reporter, wrote yesterday thatPope Benedict XVI is proving less...

Ann Rodgers, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette‘s smart religion reporter, wrote yesterday that Pope Benedict XVI is proving less conservative than expected. But the...