An excerpt from Roxane Gay's "The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts...

From Neal Gabler's article, "The Elusive Big Idea," at The New York Times yesterday: It is no secret, especially...

From "Mother Russia," at Tablet today, on...

From Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann at The New Yorker: Liberty is the concept—or at least the word—most...

From James Fenton's review of the Broadway musical by the creators of "South Park," "The Book of Mormon," at...

It's no secret there's a short supply of Catholic priests in the US, so when we heard that the...

Amy Levin: Last Wednesday, June 15th, something historic happened…for the fourth time. The New York assembly approved the...

An excerpt from Vikram Kapur's article "When Society Failed the Artist" today at The Hindu, on the recent...

From "Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light" by Beatrice Marovich, at Killing the Buddha: But what if, perhaps,...

From the website of Central Baptist Church of Wayne, PA: In affirming the historic Baptist principle of non-creedalism, Central...

An excerpt from Thomas Frank's "Gold Faithful," from the July issue of Harper's Magazine, on gold as a "moral...

by Mary Valle I don’t think that men and women are the same. I think we have a lot in...

Chris Armstrong on Emile Male and the medieval "love affair" with Creation: On the theme of what I think...

Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors...

by Amanda Marcotte To quickly summarize a recently- released,  five-year study funded by the Catholic Church on the priest sex...

by Frances Kissling This past week, criminologists at the John Jay College of Criminal Law released a numbers crunching, statistically...

Is it really any surprise that religion's not going away?  It can't because we're born with it.  So says...

From Matthieu Aikins at Foreign Policy Magazine: Indeed, the Global War on Terror has illustrated the troubling contradictions that...

Jay Rosen at PressThink on the things he's learned in 25 years of teaching journalism: It’s Bill Keller 

Writes James Gleich at Smithsonian: Memes emerge in brains and travel outward, establishing beachheads on paper and celluloid and...