A somewhat baffling news story, about Condeleeza Rice’s recent hosting of Muslim community leaders for a fast-breaking Iftaar dinner...

Generally speaking, U.S. politicians’ and religio-rock stars’ explanations for God’s periodic, environmental fits of wrath are predictable: gay sex,...

Republican Indiana State Senator Brent Steele said he intends to propose legislation in response to the antics of the...

Atheists get a lobbyist too, in the form of Lori Lipman Brown, former Nevada state senator and the new...

Can conservatism — or at least Bush’s variety of it — be born again? Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal...

Harriet Miers either “found Christ” in 1989, or else she lost her faith in that same year, and she...

Interfaith offense was given this week in Virginia’s gubernatorial race, after Republican nominee, Jerry W. Kilgore, launched a new...

Jason Carter: Although the irony is difficult to miss, The Los Angeles Times’ Josh Getlin dutifully points out that...

Tony Perkins of the Christian conservative Family Research Council targets NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg — usually of little concern...

Sharlet: On the one hand, there’s something thuggish about attempts by some religious conservative media bigs to press penguins...

Moktada al-Sadr‘s “beard reaches up his cheeks and a dark widow’s peak points down from beneath his own black...

A leader of the nation’s largest evangelical organization sharply chastises Bush for his failure to act in a crisis...

The Family Research Council — heir to the Christian Coalition as Washington’s most effective Christian Right political organization —...

“Like a lot of celebrities, the Rock is smaller than you expect it to be…” No, not the awesome...

Amy Sullivan of Washington Monthly on why The Atlantic, the Weekly Standard, and the National Review are wrong about...

Jason Carter: “Strategizing a Christian Coup d’Etat” by The L.A. Times’ Jenny Jarvie sheds light on an ambitious movement...

Christianity Today‘s Ted Olsen reports on the Robertson “scandal” the right way: by following the money (scroll down to...

Don’t run, Hillary, don’t run: Amy Sullivan: “Jill Lawrence, one of USA Today‘s campaign correspondents in 2004, has observed...

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

Speaking at an American Studies conference about “Politics and Religion in USA” at an Islamabad university, Deputy Chief of...

The conservative Washington Times can’t be faulted for lack of transparency in its coverage of Tom “The Hammer” DeLay. We admire...

“GOP leaders in both houses describe [the Terry Schiavo] case as having to do with the ‘culture of life’...

Joan Humphrey Lefkow, the U.S. District Judge once allegedly targeted for murder by Matthew Hale after she ruled that...

Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, a staunch abortion opponent and former state representative, has demanded the complete medical records of almost...