Daily round-up of religion in the news.

Links from around the web.

Jolie’s preemptive strike against what might be called in manful terms a “clear and present danger” violates norms against...

What promised land? What medical ethics? What radical Muslims? What orphans? A quick guide to righteous media this week.

Don Jolly illustrates the day.

Naturalized as an integral part of practice, the mass produced yoga mat is an illustrative example of niche commoditization...

By Ann Neumann Is a revisionist history of abortion rights being used--by journalists, supporters, and lawyers--to curtail Supreme Court...

Don Jolly on the History Channel's sendup of the bible, "The Bible."

Laurel Snyder's children's book "The Longest Night" is a retelling of the story of Exodus from the perspective...

By Chris Smith "“If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away."

Nathan Schradle on the miserly, the groping, the fanatical, the pious and the vacuum.

Nathan Schradle They might be downers but they're good downers.

Nathan Schradle Well, we are now TEN YEARS OLD.

Orientalism, feminism, sexism, hedonism and beauty.

A provisional liturgy makes the U.S. Episcopal Church the first to practice same-sex marriage ceremonies, "in true unity."

Reading broadly.

Good reads pulled from The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, The Paris Review, The Revealer and elsewhere.

By Ann Neumann In one-inch letters the headlines told us what we were seeing: SAVAGES.

By Nathan Stradle It’s nice to think the truth is out there somewhere, because it gets pretty alarming looking...