The Audacity of Compromise

September 9, 2008
The press played Obama's convention speech as MLK's dream fulfilled. A careful reading reveals the dream deferred. Obama's theological...

Coming Attractions

September 9, 2008
We've got head hunters, big dams, holy Wal-Mart, and all kinds of Jesus, available to YOU, this fall, absolutely...

So That's What She Meant

September 9, 2008
Dan Kennedy’s Media Nation blog points us to two helpful Palin perspectives, including a Pentecostal scholar of Pentecostalism who...

Idol Music

September 8, 2008
Sharlet: An essay of mine from last year's Oxford American Southern Music Annual, "The People's Singer," made the cut...

Waldman's World

September 8, 2008
Beliefnet founder Steve Waldman‘s list of “what’s scary, what’s not scary” about Sarah Palin’s religion is a useful, if...

Modified Christianity

September 8, 2008
A left critic on what secular humanists don't get about Christianity in America. By Robert Christgau. (Excerpted from Truthdig.com)

This Joke is Funny Because...

September 8, 2008
Sharlet: Fred Clarkson of the anti-religious right site Talk2Action told me a couple of days ago that this story...

A New New Atheist

September 8, 2008
The "New Atheists," as writers such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens are known, are...

Obama's Dot, Dot, Dot

September 7, 2008
“As a Christian,” Obama told George Stephanopolous today, “I have a lot of humility about understanding when does the soul...

Sarah Palin's Hard Rain

September 7, 2008
Leftist and liberal bloggers have been raising questions about possible connections between Sarah Palin's churches and a fundamentalist charismatic...
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My Loveless Universe

September 6, 2008
How "compassionate conservative" Marvin Olasky uncovered my secret yearnings...

Blood Runs Thick

September 5, 2008
Sharlet: Little did I know that my recent book, The Family, was a sort of sequel to Upton Sinclair's...

Wayward Sheep

August 28, 2008
Ashley Makar: I was late to my Egyptian baptism. Over twenty-four years and ten minutes late. It might...

Obama and the Kings

August 27, 2008
This essay from The Nation on “Obama and King” — which would have been better titled “Obama and the...

A Miraculous "Mémoire"

August 25, 2008
''If you read a lot of Holocaust literature, all survivor stories are miraculous," says Jane Daniel, publisher of yet...

A Biology Teacher Evolves

August 23, 2008
Why didn't anyone think of this before? NYT Pulitzer Prize winning science reporter Amy Harmon follows evolution into a...

NEW News

August 22, 2008
The Network of Enlightened Women (NEW) “defines what conservatism is,” a NEW leader tells Politico‘s Helena Andrews. Unfortunately, either...

Art News

August 20, 2008
Meanwhile, news of why Chinese authorities arrested NYC graffitti artist James Powderly in Beijing: this electric banner. Brought...

After Michael Phelps

August 20, 2008
What are mainstream media's top three China talking points? 1. Good Olympics! Too bad about the little girl who...

The Church Press

August 20, 2008
Brad Greenberg, author of the L.A. Jewish Journal’s “God Blog,” points us to Kathleen Parker’s WaPo column in which...

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