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

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

The Revealer‘s normal modus operandi is to say: Didja see that? Religion! In the secular news! We’re always on...

Voting against one’s own interests may be an international phenomenon, according toHannah Allam of Knight Ridder Newspapers. Though women make up...

Ten Commandments watch. Verdict: Yes! in Wisconsin. Means: Sell the land under the monument and fence it in with notices...

Just two days after the AP reported on the first-ever tally of faith-based federal funding — over $1.17 billion in 2003...

The Dutch postal agency TPG has announced that it will send all anonymous letters to God to the Netherland’s evangelical broadcasting...

A number of agencies that received federal funding earmarked for faith-based organizations were surprised to find that the government...

Chris Walton of Philocrites points us to religion reporter Cathleen Falsani’s Chicago Sun-Times interview with Hugh Hefner. Falsani gets the obvious over with first:...

Deal Hudson has announced that he will resign as publisher of Crisis magazine at year’s end as a result of the...

Anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) activists meeting in Nairobi called for comprehensive legislation banning the practice, which removes part of all...

Pew’s latest study finds that “Americans in most religious categories want laws to define marriage as between a man and...

A car bomb detonated outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta killed nine and wounded 173 just before Indonesia’s presidential...

“If Kerry Wins…“: Dick Cheney opts for equal opportunity voter intimidation. “‘Thank you, Lord, for loving journalism'”: Columbia Journalism Review’s Gal Beckerman writes...

“It says something about a chasm in American culture that two groups that deride each other’s core beliefs use...

“The funniest philosopher of all time”? Scott McLemee, at The Chronicle of Higher Education, reviews The Humor of Kierkegaard: An Anthology (Princeton University...

‘I want people to judge me on my deeds, not how I try to define myself as a religious...

“‘This shrine’s a problem.'” NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks to Washington Post embed Karl Vickabout the “politics” complicating things in Najaf. Listen. Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien...