No mainstream pundit has gotten Rick Warren’s Saddleback forum for the candidates more wrong than The New Yorker‘s usually astute...

Revealer Kathryn Joyce is filling in for invaluable Sarah Posner while she’s on vacation. Read Kathryn’s special edition of...

Sharlet: The liberal blogosphere will soon be a-twitter over James Dobson’s announcement that he’s reconsidering his once absolutist opposition...

Every now and then, two great faiths converge. Such meetings transcend the ecumenical impulse; indeed, they may lead to...

“The beacon of the Catholic church to immigrants has rarely shown more brilliantly” than in Postville, Iowa, writes Samuel...

Couldn’t resist:God arrested for selling cocaine.

The universe is in balance, George Carlin once said, because Jesus has a little statue of a middle-class American...

The NYT delivers news of The Shack, a gi-normous bestseller of a Christian novel, to the secular world, comparing...

Sharlet: I’ll be discussing my new book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, on...

Big, big story missed by the press: Messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, held in Indianapolis, rejected...

Sharlet: WNYC’s Leonard Lopate and I discuss “maximalism,” cronyism, and The Family.

Time‘s Steven Gray follows up Obama’s decision to resign from Trinity United Church of Christ with what we think...