And the most damning indictment of evangelical passion for The Passion comes from…Christianity Today‘s Leadership Journal. “Maybe it’s because (I know some...

For those who care about such things, there’s a yawny story in The Washington Times about some gung-ho ex-state trooper-turned-Virginia legislator...

The ghost of a religion story comes in the form of a cliche in Tim Weiner‘s NYT story about the automation of...

Death of a Salesman is a Jewish play precisely because it isn’t Jewish, writes Karen Hartman, in an essay for Nextbook on Arthur Miller’s...

The Los Angeles Times reports on some of the goods and services on offer at the annual National Religious Broadcasters...

Hey newspaper editors: Want to make sure nobody complains about “bias” ever again? There’s a simple solution! Let them eat blog. Julie...

Brazilian nun killers can count on American Catholics to stay focused on what reallymatters — gay marriage and Clint Eastwood...

“Moral relativism,” it seems, plagues even Pagans. Mike, an Odinist incarcerated in Michigan Department of Corrections, writes to new Witch magazine to ask...

Ben Rutter: In the early months of the century, Sam Harris found himself apprenticed in the study of the...

“Modern science,” reports Nicholas Kristof (be ware of any claim that begins with “modern science”) “is turning up a possible reason...

The Revealer‘s favorite Yiddish writer, Lamed Shapiro, appears in translation in the new edition of Pakn Treger, the magazine of the...

Washington Post‘s Dan Balz says incoming DNC chair Howard Dean “offers a secular vision of the world at a time when...

There’s an echo of faith — violent, scary faith — in this AP report on a scalping in Idaho. A 26-year-old...

Religious epidemiology: Pilgrims returning from Mecca may be spreading polio, according to the World Health Organization. “We’re staring at the...

You can vote here for your favorite Catholic blog in a number of categories. We’re no experts, but the nominees seem...

Talmud for dummies: Brooklyn-based publisher ArtScroll/Mesorah has sunk $21 million into a new, 73-volume, easy English edition of the Talmud....

The LA Times reports that Dem Bob Hertzberg is running for mayor of the city on “traditionally Republican themes.” And...

The Washington Post follows AP’s lead a week late in reporting on sexual interrogation tactics used at Guantanomo to religiously...

“How a beautiful, artistic, well-to-do Jewish girl became, by turns, a hippie and still later a fundamentalist Christian makes...

“In the Hollywood representational rubric,” writes New Pantagruelist Patton Dodd(also, we’re proud to say, a Buddha Killer and a Revealer) “evangelical characters are...

The website of Prayer Breakfast Network, a group dedicated to replicating the National Prayer Breakfast in cities across the...

“For years [British] churches criticised Conservative governments and Baroness Thatcher. Now their views more closely reflect her famous comment...

Jason Yungbluth updates My Little Golden Book About God.

The evangelical magazine Christianity Today has made a list of the “10 most redeeming films of the year. Most surprising redeemer? Spiderman...