The overwhelming importance of Seymour Hersh's latest jawdropping report in The New Yorker lies, of course, in the...

A historian of Christian martyrdom attends a Christian Right strategy session in the "War on Christians. By Elizabeth A. Castelli A...

Jeff Sharlet in Columbia Journalism Review on Eyal Press' Absolute Convictions: An intimate history of Buffalo

Ralph Reed loses his soul: The Nation’s Bob Moser follows the Reed-Abramoff money trail through Georgia, down to the...

Ashley Michelle Makar: "When Aunt Judy almost died last week, I was watching people speak in tongues, in Peter...

Nude Britney Spears in hot pro-life action! Artist Daniel Edwards sculpts Brit birthing baby Sean Preston -- on a...

Tanya Erzen dissects Focus on the Family’s nationally organized “grass roots” effort to make gay civil rights a matter...

Tony Judt, author of a useful new book on European politics since 1945 called Postwar, demolishes the so-called dean...

Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed debunks David Horowitz’ new book on the evils of academe, The Professors, and...

Nicole Greenfield wonders why more Christians don't feel The McPassion.

That the Jewish Forward pays more attention to what may be a neo-Nazi resurgence in Germany comes as no...

Nora Connor: At first, Andrea Elliott

WaPo‘s military correspondent Tom Ricks, according to George Will: “who, he wonders, will control the likes of Moqtada al-Sadr?...

The best journalism on evangelicals in awhile comes not from a writer but from a French photographer named Johann...

What is there to say about “Ministers of Debate,” Zev Chafets’ amiable NYT Mag profile of the debate team...

A visit to the comic book store reveals dueling impulses in pop culture religion: Atheist, in which our hero...

Virgins, senators, spiritual warriors, Gandalf, God's gift to women, terrorist angels, secret societies, big radio, little Buddhas, unfinished books,...

"Only the West could have made a movie in which blowing up civic temples is a 'provocative' media statement."...

Martyn Oliver: For some, freedom of speech is under attack. For others, common decency and respect have been lost....

“The War on Christians” conference is coming to D.C., featuring a modified-A-list of conservative heavyweights organized by Vision America,...

Isaac Hayes, who’s been the voice of South Park character Chef for nearly a decade, is the butt of...

Adam H. Becker On February 21 Syrian-American psychiatrist, Wafa Sultan, gave an interview on al-Jazeera television in which she criticized...

“Christ is not a Christian.” Historian Garry Wills talks to WNYC’s Brian Lehrer about his new book, What Jesus...

The Air Force Academy lawsuit continues, with plaintiff Michael Weinstein requesting an expansion of the suit to include the...