By Jay Rosen My fellow academics in journalism and media studies all know his name; too many journalists (and bloggers...

News of the Weird (press releases): on Sept 12, 2004, in Washington, D.C., the National Council of Churches will...

“‘Churches have a responsibility to avoid partisan entrapment, just as political parties have a duty not to attempt to...

B’nai B’rith International issued a statement this week calling on the Jewish community to end all dialogue with the...

You can’t expect to find nuanced discussion of the role of religion in the lefty Nation, but occasionally you will...

“As my father describes it, encountering his daughter en route to self-asphyxiation was enough to startle him to his...

Barry Goldwater biographer Rick Perlstein attends a Bush campaign party to meet those who see W. as a great man; nay,...

The NYT manages to publish an even less-perceptive report on the Georgia Senate race than The Washington Post. “G.O.P. is Poised to Tighten...

The Washington Post claims — with little evidence — that abortion is emerging as a potential deciding factor in elections across...

We briefly interrupt our display of Amy Sullivan‘s “Religious Men” to draw attention to one of the better pieces of campaign —...

AP reports that the Bush administration has blocked $34 million in congressionally-approved funds for the U.N. Population Fund because of what...

Imagine a world of government-funded “faith-based” Christian academies. Now imagine a world in which said academies, built on the...

Jay Rosen: “If a religion writer covered the presidential campaign, how would campaign coverage be different? The least interesting...

Canadian Muslim and author of The Trouble With Islam, Irshad Manji, argues against one-dimensional perceptions of Islam, today on NPR’s The Leonard Lopate...

In search of religion on the campaign trail We recently asked our publisher, Jay Rosen, for advice on how...

Imagine a world of government-funded “faith-based” Christian academies. Now imagine a world in which said academies, built on the...

Day One — and ten years to go. So says Chuck Colson, Nixon dirty trickster turned evangelical leader, about...

You can call Rick Santorum “‘a hater,'” but he’ll still argue that he’s “‘a lover… a lover of traditional...

UPN affiliate refuses to air a new reality show called Amish in the City; conservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) says Take that, liberal...

An Australian man accused of trying to hijack a commercial aircraft to crash it into the Walls of Jerusalem...

UPN affiliate refuses to air a new reality show called Amish in the City; conservative Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) says Take that, liberal...

An American pope? Conservative pundit Charlotte Allen takes a new tack in the debate over how much religion politicians should put...

Gwynne Dyer, in the Trinidad and Tobogo Express, laments the state of religion and politics in Nigeria — especially as...

“In April, Julee Lacey, 33, a Fort Worth, TX, mother of two, went to her local CVS drugstore for...