Noah Levine is the latest Buddhist darling, son of bestselling Buddhist author Stephen Levine, and a tattooed punk who returns an...

The Revealer’s better half, Killing the Buddha, scores with one of the more interesting pieces on the consecration of Gene Robinson,...

Newsweek‘s Joshua Hammer offers an unintended glimpse into the role of religion — American, that is — in the Iraq war....

“Is Religion Good Medicine?” asks the cover line on the latest Newsweek. It’s certainly good cover fodder, as is health....

This Ramadan, The Revealer promises not to disturb our fast with: movies, masturbation, or cupping (that’s medical bloodletting, for all you infidels). Islam Online offers other helpful...

As Leah Eichler tells it in Moment, a Jewish monthly, the story of Aviel Barclay — poised to become the first woman to scribe...

Halloween… time to bake the challah. Keren Engelberg, a contributing writer for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, reports that...

Jewish architect Richard Meier‘s vision for the Catholic church has just opened in a working class suburb of Rome. There’s...

The editors of The New Republic argue in this week’s edition that the Supreme Court should allow the words “under God”...

There’s a bestselling book out there advising men to reclaim their masculine souls from the clutches of a feminized...

Culture Is Not Optional is an intriguing name for a religious organization, and Catapult is an even better name for its magazine....

France, lately indistinguishable from Saudi Arabia to many Americans, is considering banning the hijab from public schools. The idea gained steam...

Has The New Republic found a new religion? Long considered the preeminent pulpit for hawkish pro-Israel views, not to mention thoughtful...

Today’s New York Times features a front-pager on the decline of institutional religion in Europe by Frank Bruni. Running for a full...

A gathering of conservative Episcopalians in Dallas ended yesterday with the church still intact and the majority of the...

The problem with the Justice Department’s investigation of American Muslim Council directorAbdurrahman Alamoudi, writes Shahed Amanullah and Aslam Abdullah, is that American...

The Believer is a new journal dedicated to the proposition that “snark” must be rooted out from criticism in the...

The Revealer agrees with Nicholas Kristof‘s condemnation of the Bush Administration’s stipulation that 1/3 of oversees anti-AIDS money go to the...

Years ago, Arthur Carter — publisher of The New York Observer, and, at the time, The Nation, for which I was then an...

Should Gray Davis be allowed to take communion? Some conservative Roman Catholic leaders say no, but not because they’re...

Last Spring, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti gave Voodoo official recognition, most notably legalizing Voodoo marriages. Now, reports Christianity Today, “Christians” fear...

Jesus is second only to Hitler in terms of units sold when it comes to moving newsweeklies, but that hasn’t stopped U.S. News...