Peter Manseau: One evening just before Christmas, in a modest, two-bedroom apartment on 16th Street in Northwest Washington, the...

Not sure if I'm alluding to the South or Jesus there, or if there's really a difference, but anyway,...

Steve Beeber, author of The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's: A Secret History of Jewish Punk, asks: Was punk good...

Mark Oppenheimer: "When politicians have to belong to churches, and when religion journalists seem to write only about churches,...

A Polish P.I. and his sidekick, a rat named Watson, attempt to solve the Case of the Meaning...

"A martyr

Angela Zito: "Tiny bottle of Chartreuse in hand, I emerged in mid-town a few weeks ago from watching Into...

"Jewish Freaks and Geeks," presented by Eddie Portnoy. The most wonderful thing the new Jewish magazine Jewcy has published...

Sharlet: File this under "roads not taken": In Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad...

Sharlet: I've started a blog, Call Me Ishmael...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daniel Sorrell: Given a public figure on a high horse with a pompous, in-your-face manner, sooner or later South Park...

Kathryn Joyce: The Christian "Quiverfull" movement measures a mother's spiritual resolve by the number of children she raises, each...

Rev. Lou Sheldon, president of the ironically-named Traditional Values Coalition: I knew Ted Haggard was a homo!

J.C Hallman visits a Scientology Center, with William James on the mind.

Jill Hamburg Coplan: During these Jewish High Holy Days, coming on the heels of the latest war in Lebanon,...

Meera Subramanian: On this December day, it is a comfortable sixty-five degrees in the shade and there are alligators...

Jeff Sharlet "Bad Moon Rising

Jeff Sharlet: Jesus Camp, a new documentary, opens in New York City this Friday. I've assigned a review...