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...

Something Stinks

November 25, 2003
Johnny Hart, creator of the popular “B.C.” comic strip, stands accused of “secret jihad” by several fellow cartoonists. Gene Weingarten of The...

Catholic In Name Only

November 25, 2003
In his cover story for this month’s edition of Crisis, the conservative Catholic magazine, Mark Gavreau Judge never explains what exactly he...

Party's Over, Fellas

November 24, 2003
Some people just don’t know when to leave. Evangelical jihadi and U.S. Lt. General William G. Boykin soldiers on, despite the...

God's Gay Marriage

November 22, 2003
When The New York Times delivers a sermon, it’s usually of the secular variety, which is why it comes as a...

Mel Gibson, Meet Will Farrell

November 21, 2003
Christiany Today‘s Ted Olson provides a fascinating array of responses to Elf, the controversial new film adaptation of the Christmas story critics fear...

Quaking

November 20, 2003
Do Quakers have a constitutional right to quiet? That they do is the argument of a group of Friends,...

Writing My Religion

November 17, 2003
Great journalism requires both skepticism and empathy. So how does a believer — or an atheist — write about...

Imam Ali in Sadr City

November 14, 2003
“An Iraqi between posters of prominent Shiite cleric Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr and Imam Ali, first Imam and cousin of...

Uncovering Islam

November 12, 2003
Does the press’s coverage of Islam actually cover-up the complexities of a far-from monolithic faith? Why is Islam —...

The "God Gulf" at The New York Times

November 12, 2003
In a bold attempt to coin a new catchphrase, Nicholas Kristof of The New York Timeswrites of the “God gulf” between liberal and conservative...

Write Pretty

November 12, 2003
According to Alt.Muslim, one of the world’s greatest traditional Islamic artists lives in Arlington, Virginia. Mohamed Zakariya is a calligrapher, and he...

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