The US Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of Film and Broadcasting (evaluating "according to artistic merit and moral suitability") has...

Chris Armstrong at Grateful to the Dead points readers to an article on Gene Roddenberry's humanism. Armstrong...

An excerpt from Austin Dacey's review of Christopher Hitchens' new memoir, Hitch-22: The Christian West, after all, did not...

But only when you expect your public school to pay for it. Back in November, the Supreme Court agreed...

Newsweek's annual "50 Most Influential Rabbis in America" list is just out and Debra Nussbaum Cohen at the...

Diane Winston (the Knight chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, master of...

Despite disastrous ratings declines, Glenn Beck continues to be hard to ignore.  Lately he's taken to "red-baiting" the...

Don't miss Susan Henking's article today at Religion Dispatches on second wave feminism, theology, and gender equality in...

Or a grilled cheese sandwich?  Or a porch door? (Warning:  Do not continue reading if you're the casino...

Stephanie Butnick: With the arrival of CNN's Belief Blog, Angie Chuang at Poynter asks, "Is the Belief...

Nathan Schneider, senior editor at Killing the Buddha, on his new article at The Nation, "God, Science,...

"The Digital Death Day attendees were not all entrepreneurs working out their promising business plans. (And some of...

We are not ourselves. We no longer know what it means to be American. We are letting our secretive...

Letters to Michael Getler, Ombudsman for PBS, after show host Tavis Smiley said that Christians were as responsible...

David Nolan of Catholics for Choice gives us a run-down of the agenda for the upcoming World Congress...

Rhonda Roumani at The Scoop asks why controversial atheist and denouncer of Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is allowed...

“I know what the podium I stand behind represents, what Israel studies represents. I know this is a...

Andrew Dermont at Big Think writes us to point out their new series, "Believe it or not," of...

by Paul Creeden: Dr. Jack Kevorkian is the subject of You Don't Know Jack, an HBO film, which premiered...

Marc Hartzman, author of God Made Me Do It: True stories of the worst advice the Lord has...

by S. Brent Plate: "This is the end, my only friend the end . . . I'll never look into...

As part of this year's Book Expo America at the Jacob Javits Center in New York, a panel...

Peter Beinart published an article in the New York Review of Books last week, "The Failure of the...