“The good is to be done because it is good, not because it goes somewhere. I believe if it...

Mark Pinsky coins the kind of alliterative phrase that should produce a herd of stories following his trail: “mainline...

Does the following sentence strike you as a little creepy? “In their floor-length gowns, up-dos and tiaras, the 70...

Mollie Hemingway at The Revealer‘s conservative counterpart on the God beat, Get Religion, does an excellent job of exploring...

Upcoming Events — Sunday, May 18, Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet discusses his new book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism...

Media scholar Mark Crispin Miller, author of Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform and editor of a...

Pastor Dan of Street Prophets, a progressive religious group blog, parses the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of a Christian...

Jeff Weiss of the Dallas Morning News wonders if Hillary Clinton’s Doug Coe connection is as troubling to her...

Republicans aren’t the only ones who believe in using faith-based initiatives to win votes. In the month before the...

Maureen Dowd, the noted columnist and student of African American religious history, jumps on the NYT Jeremiah Wright hate...

Sharlet: I believe I’ll be on the CBC — Canadian Broadcasting Company — program “The Current” Wednesday morning, discussing...

The NYT’s Bob Herbert (writing in the opinion pages, at least), joins the liberal elite’s outrage over Jeremiah Wright....

Holly Berman: A surrogate for the Obama campaign announced today that in light of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s decision...

Another brilliant portrait of New York City Islam from the NYT’s Andrea Elliott — a major feature on the...

There’s some irony that Bishop Gene Robinson, the out gay Episcopal prelate, has been relegated to the “Marketplace” at...

What do the king of Norway and Hillary and Clinton have in common? They’re both pals with Doug Coe,...

What’s worse than Mel Gibson’s Passion? A biography of Jesus by the director of Showgirls. Next up: Brett Ratner...

Religious right watcher Bill Berkowitz, whose work we’ve touted before, joined two scholars we admire — Bruce Schulman and...

Newsweek‘s cover story this week depicts a remote community of frustrated, working class folk facing dim economic prospects and...

Leave it to the Anglicans to make biblical literalism sound thoughtful. Sholto Byrnes in New Statesman on Britain’s cleverest...

“Art demands detachment,” writes Leon Wieseltier, “but religion forbids it.” Huh? That’s about as narrow a conception of both...

The counterpart to today’s NYT frontpager on the pope’s mild stand on behalf of immigrants is the Metro section...

Peter Manseau in The Washington Post, on the incredible shrinking papacy.

Faith-Based Initatives just turned seven. And it looks like the program may have a long life ahead of it....