Salon writer Steve Paulson talks belief with disbeliever Sam Harris, author of the bestselling book The End of Faith....

“Hamza Walker Lindh has come to embody the challenge of Islam to America, and the challenge is simply this:...

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There’s really no news value in alerting the world of the fact that the Family Research Council, a Washington-based...

Slate‘s Martin Edlund trots out what will likely soon be the reigning narrative for mainstream coverage of the “religious...

Linda Wertheimer’s NPR interview this morning with retiring Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson is surprisingly tough, openly skeptical of Gerson’s...

Valedictorian Brittany McComb tried her luck at freedom of (graduation) speech outburst last week when she deviated from the...

Announcing the first annual Progressive Faith Blog Con, a gathering by and for religious and/or progressive bloggers. The conference...

New Yorkers: Tonight, Revealer editor Jeff Sharlet and Revealer contributor Laurel Snyder join novelist Katharine Weber at the “Novel...

This morning’s Guardian reports that a “secret high-level” study commissioned by London’s Directorate of Professional Standards has been leaked....

The Atlantic has just published an online article by Mary Anne Weaver, who traveled to Jordan just months ago...

Rob Brendle, associate pastor of the New Life megachurch in Colorado Springs — de facto HQ of the National...

Some of the best foreign affairs investigative reporting of the moment is to be found in “Washington Babylon,” Ken...

And the devil put on his mittens: George F. Will, sanctimonious conservative pundit, demolishes an “aggressively annoying new phrase...

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Our favorite Weekly Standard writer — actually, the only one we really like — Matt LaBash goes on tour...

“The future growth of the Christian Right,” writes Tanya Erzen, “depends on whether it can mobilize African-American and Latino...

Margaret Atwood reimagines the story of Herodias’s daughter — the girl who called for John the Baptist’s head —...

A small story that gets no press, because it’s wacky and kind of pathetic: D.C. prayer rally at a...

Sharlet: I’m a finalist in the national reporting category for the $10,000 Livingston Award for journalists under 35, for...

“Bush’s faith-based conception of his mission, which stands above and beyond reasoned inquiry, jibes well with his administration’s pro-business...

The press is paying attention to last night’s Ohio gubenatorial GOP primary win of Ken Blackwell. If Blackwell wins...

The boundaries of religious expression in the workplace — a cause defended by an over-broad coalition that links religious...

The end of gnosticism?