Last week we criticized the NYT’s reliance on evangelical VIPs for its “insight” into Huckabee, so it’s only fair...

The NYT’s explanation for why Huck won Iowa is a perfect example of what many evangelicals are talking about...

The NYT’s Timothy Egan gives a succinct summation of the Republican fear of a Huck planet: “It’s okay to have...

Resurrection TK.

Some of the best religion reporting in The New York Times appears in the Business Section, under the byline...

According to Virginia Heffernan, Youtube rants about religion, “part atavistic race riot, part religious disputation and part earnest effort...

“Free speech,” declared conservative writer Phyllis Chessler in observance of “Islamofascism Awareness Week,” “belongs also to those of us...

Jeff Sharlet: I’ve a review of Frank Schaeffer’s fascinating new book, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As...

Mississippi gubenatorial candidate John Arthur Eaves ressurrects William Jennings Bryanwith his challenge to the state’s governor, wealthy former lobbyist Haley...

Jeff Sharlet: I’m back, again, after a month mostly off the grid in the woods of New Hampshire. I...

Sharlet: Not that Kennedy. To me the most interesting thing about D. James Kennedy‘s death today is how little...

Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet discuss their new Mother Jones feature, “Hillary’s Prayer,” on Cynthia Black’s Phoenix, Arizona “Action...

Those godless secularists! We refer, of course, to the conservatives at The Wall Street Journal, so enamored of the...

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins takes the hard sell approach to promoting science to skeptics (that is, the faithful): Religion...

Why do people still believe Saddam had WMDs? Because Jesus tells them so. Well, not Jesus, but his modern...

Reporters, report: The Fall/Winter 2006 edition of Christian Leader, a publication of Pat Robertson‘s Regent University, declares that 30...

The man sometimes referred to as the Christian Right's "movement intellectual" -- Watergate felon Chuck Colson -- tested...

Sharlet: I'll be discussing last Monday's CNN/Sojourner faith forum for the top 3 Dem. contenders on the "Your...

"Munir Virani is a biologist, the name of his field spawning from the Greek root word for life. And...

Britannica Blog, published by the Encyclopedia Britannica, speculates on the mother of all atheist bestsellers... The Da Vince...

That's just one of the strangely ambivalent bits of wisdom in display in Doree Shafrir's illustrated essay on

The man who built the conservative big tent under which religious and business conservatives partied together is trying to...

“What’s He Doing Here?” That’s the title of Nextbook.com’s public conference on Jesus in Jewish culture, to be held...

Private Jessica Lynch and Pat Tillman’s brother reject Pentagon mythmaking. The Veterans Administration accepts Wiccan mythology (and why that’s...