Religious fascism at Yankee Stadium? Evangelical scholar and writer Randall Balmer says it’s so when singing “God Bless America” becomes a...

Those who prefer their pope-news in the style of The Daily Racing Form will find an excellent guide to ponies — Ratzinger ahead...

Reporting on the growth of evangelicalism in Latin America isn’t exactly “news,” but Henry Chu‘s LA Times feature on the transformation is an...

If you’re looking for smart journalism about the legal and religious ideas of Supreme Court Justice Scalia, perhaps the most...

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

Why, oh why, do they hate us so? Such is the question posed by earnest Nick Kristof in “A...

In a set of guidelines for religious education released this week in England, teachers have been instructed to avoid...

"For all his love of country, Niebuhr never learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. What he did...

Religious kitsch is a fact of life for religion writers, and after awhile the wobbly pope dolls and the...

Media in the Home of the Free and the Brave, by Garret Keizer: "Is the Pope Catholic?" we ask,...

Scott Korb: They are not running away. They are not rebelling. They may not actually know, or be able...

Reporters have been calling to find out what The Revealer has to say about the death of the pope. Not too...

The San Antonio Express-News experiments with a new strategy for overthrowing the country’s secular overlords: make atheists look like a...

Peter Manseau, author of the forthcoming Vows, a memoir of his Catholic priest father and his mother the nun, writes...

Matthew Moran: “I looked at Mark and wondered silently. Wondered if we would be making proclamations about faith and new...

We’ve been arguing with Caleb Stegall, an editor of our favorite small-o orthodox Christian website that likes to bash us, about...

Kate Hawley: By now, most of us have been sufficiently primed for the coming of Revelations, NBC

End-Times Update (U.S. only): After analyzing and interpreting various Koranic verses, Palestinian scholar Ziad Silwadi has published a study currently circulating...

In spirit of the holiday, Maureen Dowd tries to find common ground between Da Vinci author Dan Brown and Da Vinci judge Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who recently...

A Moscow art exhibit entitled “Beware of Religion” has been deemed “insulting” and “overtly provocative” by a district court,...

There is no shortage of foolish rhetoric clamoring for the attention of poor Terri Schiavo, from both the self-declared...

Kate Hawley: News flash: Christian holidays have pagan roots. A wide-eyed report from Agence-France Presse tells us it "seems...

Everyone’s a blasphemer these days, including Rabbi Nosson Slifkin, an ultra-Orthodox Israeli scholar and Talmudic zoologist who has written...

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