Kate Hawley: By now, most of us have been sufficiently primed for the coming of Revelations, NBC

End-Times Update (U.S. only): After analyzing and interpreting various Koranic verses, Palestinian scholar Ziad Silwadi has published a study currently circulating...

In spirit of the holiday, Maureen Dowd tries to find common ground between Da Vinci author Dan Brown and Da Vinci judge Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who recently...

A Moscow art exhibit entitled “Beware of Religion” has been deemed “insulting” and “overtly provocative” by a district court,...

There is no shortage of foolish rhetoric clamoring for the attention of poor Terri Schiavo, from both the self-declared...

Kate Hawley: News flash: Christian holidays have pagan roots. A wide-eyed report from Agence-France Presse tells us it "seems...

Everyone’s a blasphemer these days, including Rabbi Nosson Slifkin, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli scholar and Talmudic zoologist who has written...

“GOP leaders in both houses describe [the Terry Schiavo] case as having to do with the ‘culture of life’...

“Despite, or perhaps because of, the lack of historical fact about his motivations, Judas remains a fascination. ‘Certain traditions...

–Jeff Sharlet KillingTheBuddha.com — “cheaper than church,” “paved with good intentions,” “Allah in the family,” “god for the godless” —...

Evangelical media has been abuzz with the story of Elizabeth Ashley Smith, the hostage of the Atlanta courthouse killer...

Wisconsin police are focusing on the role of religion in Terry Ratzmann’s murderous attack on his own church, reports The...

–Jeff Sharlet Part I: Last night I went to church at the Journey, an evangelical, nondenominational, congregation of actors...

Chastity is all the rage: NYT‘s Alex Williams falls all over chastity crusader Lauren F. Winner and her new book, Real Sex, in the paper’s Fashion...

“Mary, an unstable mystic, masturbates with holy ardor, turning a prayer — ‘Come, Lord Jesus, have mercy on me’...

Lisa Anderson: "I haven't introduced myself to the KRCC staff as Lisa the Christian. And I thought that was...

What a pleasure to read a story about Islam that has nothing to do with “the war on terror.” Andrea...

Death-threat recipient and author, Salman Rushdie, comes out strongly against Tony Blair’s proposed ban on inciting religious hatred, and not...

A short month and a half after reports that atheists were poised to take over the world — err, a mid-sized...

Chris Lehmann: From Housekeeping to Gilead, Marilynne Robinson has always been exploring what counts as genuine faith.

Joan Humphrey Lefkow, the U.S. District Judge once allegedly targeted for murder by Matthew Hale after she ruled that...

The attorneys involved in the dispute between the University of North Carolina and an evangelical Christian fraternity at the...

Sharlet: CNN headlines the fact that Dennis Rader, the just-arrested, alleged “BTK” serial killer of Wichita, Kansas, conforms to...

Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, a staunch abortion opponent and former state representative, has demanded the complete medical records of almost...