Mark Greif writes at n+1 that the best system of eradicating extreme poverty and extreme wealth -- not...

From Chris Mooney's recent article at Mother Jones, "The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science." A man with...

From a new post at Footnotes Since the Wilderness about the Ephrata Cloister in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and it's...

From Lewis Lapham's introduction to the Celebrity issue of Latham's Quarterly (Winter 2011, p. 16): In place of the gods...

From Richard Kim's recent editorial at The Nation, "Obama's 'War on Terror'": And so we now see clearly a...

Kenny Rogers released a new album of his favorite gospel songs, "The Love of God," on Monday. "The trick...

From Obit Mag's recent send-off to Jane Russell who died last week, "A Figure of Contradiction": Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine...

An excerpt from Anne Morey's article in the Spring 2011 issue of Letters, the newsletter of the Robert Penn...

From Tim Muldoon's article at WaPo's On Faith blog, "Faltering and Leading: The Conservative Moment," in which Muldoon...

From a review by The Washington Post's Hank Stuever of  "The Sunset Limited," a new HBO show written...

Christopher Smith on his new movie, "Black Death": It's a film about a monk who has a clash between,...

From Resisting the Green Dragon: Dominion, Not Death, a new book (with a 4 disc DVD companion; look for...

Newsweek asks, "What does the bible really say about sex?" This ode to sexual consummation can be found...

From Gary Wolf's recent profile in Wired of David Allen, author of the wildly popular Getting...

From Kathryn Joyce's recent article at Religion Dispatches: Adult victims could comprise up to 25% of all clergy abuse...

From BibliOdyssey, the below engraving, included in the 1723 - 1737 book by Bernard Picart, Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses...

Julie Ingersoll writes at Religion Dispatches about a recent Christianity Today profile of the Ahmansons, husband and...

From Genevieve Yue's "That Old Time Religion" at Reverse Shot: In 1799, Étienne-Gaspard Robertson premiered the phantasmagoria, a moving...

A new version of Huckleberry Finn has been issued; throughout, nigger is replaced with slave.  From The...