Sharlet: Last week The Simpsons‘ Springfield went gay, but before that, The Simpsons was a Christian show. Well, sort of. Christianity Today dubbed Homer’s okily-dokily...

“‘When a young man and a young woman give in to Satan, when they strip down like animals in...

“For someone constantly accused of relativism, Derrida often sounds in these late works like a man haunted by the...

Sharlet: Daschle defeater John Thune cites spiritual influence of a man who cites spiritual model of Osama Bin Laden....

While most of the press gets giddy over the revelation that Bush smoked pot (’cause, y’know, coke is for...

Next to Constantine, Mel Gibson’s The Passion is an episode of Spongebob Squarepants. In Constantine, Keanu Reeves as the titular, demon-slaying hero visits...

Hunter S. Thompson shot himself yesterday. Thompson was not a religion writer, but he was surely a religious one. He put his...

For anyone sad to see the “Philadelphia Four” story fade away, there’s more outrage and free speech debates to...

And the most damning indictment of evangelical passion for The Passion comes from…Christianity Today‘s Leadership Journal. “Maybe it’s because (I know some...

For those who care about such things, there’s a yawny story in The Washington Times about some gung-ho ex-state trooper-turned-Virginia legislator...

The ghost of a religion story comes in the form of a cliche in Tim Weiner‘s NYT story about the automation of...

Death of a Salesman is a Jewish play precisely because it isn’t Jewish, writes Karen Hartman, in an essay for Nextbook on Arthur Miller’s...

The Los Angeles Times reports on some of the goods and services on offer at the annual National Religious Broadcasters...

Hey newspaper editors: Want to make sure nobody complains about “bias” ever again? There’s a simple solution! Let them eat blog. Julie...

Brazilian nun killers can count on American Catholics to stay focused on what reallymatters — gay marriage and Clint Eastwood...

“Moral relativism,” it seems, plagues even Pagans. Mike, an Odinist incarcerated in Michigan Department of Corrections, writes to new Witch magazine to ask...

Ben Rutter: In the early months of the century, Sam Harris found himself apprenticed in the study of the...

“Modern science,” reports Nicholas Kristof (be ware of any claim that begins with “modern science”) “is turning up a possible reason...

The Revealer‘s favorite Yiddish writer, Lamed Shapiro, appears in translation in the new edition of Pakn Treger, the magazine of the...

Washington Post‘s Dan Balz says incoming DNC chair Howard Dean “offers a secular vision of the world at a time when...

There’s an echo of faith — violent, scary faith — in this AP report on a scalping in Idaho. A 26-year-old...

Religious epidemiology: Pilgrims returning from Mecca may be spreading polio, according to the World Health Organization. “We’re staring at the...

You can vote here for your favorite Catholic blog in a number of categories. We’re no experts, but the nominees seem...

Talmud for dummies: Brooklyn-based publisher ArtScroll/Mesorah has sunk $21 million into a new, 73-volume, easy English edition of the Talmud....