When Plans Backfire

February 18, 2010
Elissa Lerner: In case you’ve missed it, Uganda has been proposing anti-gay legislation (“inspired” by American evangelicals, according to...

More Oversight for Missionaries

February 11, 2010
Stephanie Butnick: Sarah Posner writes on The Daily Beast that the “media scrum”surrounding the 10 Baptist missionaries from Idaho charged...

Best Buy's Best New Market?

February 9, 2010
Elissa Lerner: It couldn’t be more American. The LA Times reported Best Buy’s recent initiative to engage in marketing...

Sweating Out the Details

February 8, 2010
Stephanie Butnick: Judith Weisenfeld writes that mainstream media coverage of the October 2009 “sweat lodge deaths” at self-help counselor...

God and Groundhog Day

February 2, 2010
Nicole Greenfield: Center for Religion and Media co-director Angela Zito discusses religion and Danny Rubin’s 1993 movie “Groundhog Day”...

Love Thy Neighbor

January 27, 2010
Elissa Lerner: The Latin American News Dispatch offered an unusual take on the crisis in Haiti yesterday morning. Amid...

Heretical Hannukah Party

December 10, 2009
TONIGHT: Celebrate Revealer alum and Killing the Buddha co-founder Peter Manseau’s trifecta win of Jewish book awards for his...

Sunday Delivery

November 23, 2009
Stephanie Butnick: In the Faith section of the Washington Times, Karen Goldberg Goff reports that truckers who happen to...

A Slice of Heaven

November 19, 2009
Elissa Lerner: They were more than 70, and they may not have all been virgins, but 200 young women...

A "fan" of Auschwitz?

October 14, 2009
Elissa Lerner: Raffi Berg reports that Auschwitz now has its own Facebook page. He writes that the Polish officials...

You Can Call Me Al

February 15, 2009
Is the Religious Right dead? It should be, suggests Sarah Pulliam in evangelicaldom’s most influential magazine, Christianity Today. Not...

My Bloody Valentine

February 14, 2009
Louis A. Reprecht asks, “How have we gone from a beheaded priest to a giddy worldwide day of romantic...

RNC Religion

February 2, 2009
Michael Steele, new Republican National Committee chairman, is African-American; he’s also a serious Roman Catholic who spent three years...

Updike at Rest

January 27, 2009
John Updike is dead; NYT responds with curiously brief AP obituary, featuring this even curiouser comment on sex and...

Inaugural Hope, Civil Religion

January 19, 2009
Most of the NYT‘s inaugural reporting hasn’t really been reporting at all. It’s the would-be scripture of civil religion,...

Rick Warren vs. The IRS

January 15, 2009
Just how powerful is Rick Warren? Ask the IRS. When they tried to collect back taxes from the pastor,...

For Whom the Bell Tolls

January 10, 2009
Seattle Post-Intelligencer may soon be joining the Christian Science Monitor, the Madison Capital Times, and many other papers around...

The Smart Set

December 29, 2008
Tim Townsend of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch responds to the Religion Newswriters Association’s dull list of top ten list...

A Well-Wrought Urn

December 28, 2008
“It’s not the vase, it’s what you put in it.” That’s what Carlos Williams, the missionary hero of this...

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