“Despite, or perhaps because of, the lack of historical fact about his motivations, Judas remains a fascination. ‘Certain traditions...

–Jeff Sharlet KillingTheBuddha.com — “cheaper than church,” “paved with good intentions,” “Allah in the family,” “god for the godless” —...

Evangelical media has been abuzz with the story of Elizabeth Ashley Smith, the hostage of the Atlanta courthouse killer...

Wisconsin police are focusing on the role of religion in Terry Ratzmann’s murderous attack on his own church, reports The...

–Jeff Sharlet Part I: Last night I went to church at the Journey, an evangelical, nondenominational, congregation of actors...

Chastity is all the rage: NYT‘s Alex Williams falls all over chastity crusader Lauren F. Winner and her new book, Real Sex, in the paper’s Fashion...

“Mary, an unstable mystic, masturbates with holy ardor, turning a prayer — ‘Come, Lord Jesus, have mercy on me’...

Lisa Anderson: "I haven't introduced myself to the KRCC staff as Lisa the Christian. And I thought that was...

What a pleasure to read a story about Islam that has nothing to do with “the war on terror.” Andrea...

Death-threat recipient and author, Salman Rushdie, comes out strongly against Tony Blair’s proposed ban on inciting religious hatred, and not...

A short month and a half after reports that atheists were poised to take over the world — err, a mid-sized...

Chris Lehmann: From Housekeeping to Gilead, Marilynne Robinson has always been exploring what counts as genuine faith.

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

The attorneys involved in the dispute between the University of North Carolina and an evangelical Christian fraternity at the...

Sharlet: CNN headlines the fact that Dennis Rader, the just-arrested, alleged “BTK” serial killer of Wichita, Kansas, conforms to...

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

Sharlet: Last week The Simpsons‘ Springfield went gay, but before that, The Simpsons was a Christian show. Well, sort of. Christianity Today dubbed Homer’s okily-dokily...

“‘When a young man and a young woman give in to Satan, when they strip down like animals in...

“For someone constantly accused of relativism, Derrida often sounds in these late works like a man haunted by the...

Sharlet: Daschle defeater John Thune cites spiritual influence of a man who cites spiritual model of Osama Bin Laden....

While most of the press gets giddy over the revelation that Bush smoked pot (’cause, y’know, coke is for...

Next to Constantine, Mel Gibson’s The Passion is an episode of Spongebob Squarepants. In Constantine, Keanu Reeves as the titular, demon-slaying hero visits...

Hunter S. Thompson shot himself yesterday. Thompson was not a religion writer, but he was surely a religious one. He put his...

For anyone sad to see the “Philadelphia Four” story fade away, there’s more outrage and free speech debates to...