By Rebecca Beyer First, there is no war in Dover, Pennsylvania. There are no armies clashing. No weapons flashing....

‘Tis the season for embarrassing hysterics over occultism and the cruel, intimidating tactics of devil-worshipping trick-or-treaters. In the spirit...

The NYT offers up as evidence that consumer hi-tech is the most awesome force in, like, history the new...

The NYT‘s Gardiner Harris manages to report an entire religion story without one reference to religion. And we’re not...

Bernard Goldberg became a hero of the right when he published Bias, his insider account of what he argues...

Everything but the longing: Peter Bebergal: “I have begun collecting psychedelic music again, almost twenty years after I traded...

Let It Boil Bob Jones U. has a glorious message for Bush, lest he be tempted to the “paganism”...

Creationism in a lab coat: “better to appear scientific than holy.” Wired News‘ Evan Ratliffreports on the “Intelligent Design” (ID) movement...

“‘In a sense we’ve been having Sukkot the last two weeks!'” Florida Jews experience a more literal celebration of...

Chris Walton of Philocrites points us to religion reporter Cathleen Falsani’s Chicago Sun-Times interview with Hugh Hefner. Falsani gets the obvious over with first:...

Banning gay marriage is, like, awesome! The In Defense of Marriage Coalition — many member churches of which have...

The Last Temptation of Shazia: Salon.com’s Priya Jain interviews controversial female Muslim stand-up comic, Shazia Mirza, whose act — often focusing on...

The Republican Party admits to sending mass mailings to Arkansas and West Virginia residents warning that “‘liberals'” seek to...

Exasperated by cell phones ringing during mass, four Catholic churches in Mexico are illegally jamming the cell phone signals with Israeli-made...

The Republican National Committee sends mailings to West Virginia voters warning that the Bible will be banned if Democrats win in...

Madonna, and entourage (including Marla Trump, Demi Moore, and Donna Karan), are scheduled to arrive in Jerusalem today to...

“‘They’ve done so much with outlawing and restricting access to abortion that they’ve set their sights on birth control...

Pew’s latest study finds that “Americans in most religious categories want laws to define marriage as between a man and...

A car bomb detonated outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta killed nine and wounded 173 just before Indonesia’s presidential...

“It says something about a chasm in American culture that two groups that deride each other’s core beliefs use...

The Nashville Tennessean is still looking for the right candidate to fill its religion reporter’s job, vacated when Brian Lewis...