Why is Rick Warren being given a pulpit at the inauguration? In large part because the press has already...

And Oxford Americanize your ears. By Jeff Sharlet Every year I plug the annual Oxford American Southern Music Issue here on...

Jeff Sharlet: Links to my favorite religion stories of 2008.

A maverick Jewish record producer with an ear for black music teams up with artists considered behind the times...

S. Brent Plate: In the wake of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, one of The New York Times most...

Elizabeth Dwoskin details the collapse of a kosher empire for the Village Voice. This is one of the best...

Jack Black reprises his Mr. Show role as Jeepers Creepers -- aka Jesus -- in the all-star, too late,...

Every major paper covered the formation of the Anglican Church of North America, comprised of 100,000 now-former members of...

By Holly Berman Chuck Colson — Watergate felon, born again culture warrior — thinks we need more laffs, and...

Odetta, 1930-2008. “Some folks sing songs,” writes Richard Corliss in Time. “Odetta testified.” But Corliss gets one thing wrong:...

Sharlet: Emergent evangelical writer Tony Jones, author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier responds to my...

Reading power lists -- those loathsome magazine compilations of the best and most publicized -- is a bit like...

Marilynne Robinson’s “extemporizing on, say, Karl Marx’s Capital is often punctuated with laughter and blithe phrases such as ‘Oh,...

Gawker, as usual, brings us the religion news: The Rev. George M. Docherty, a Scotsman who advocated for adding...

Why didn’t any editor at the NYT Book Review flag Virginia Heffernan’s use of the term “Pentecostalist” to describe...

In "Two Paths for the Novel," a recent New York Review of Books essay, novelist Zadie Smith hits it...

Leftist blogger Frederick Clarkson is wondering why conservative columnist Kathleen Parker isn’t being taken for the woodshed for her...

Sharlet: Just so I can be a shmuck and say "I told you so" later, I'm siding with William...

There's the ghost of a religion story in most memorials, and so it is with Jonathan Taylor's concise account...

A Texas megachurch pastor offers advice on “how to move from whining about the economy to whoopee!” Gretel Kovach...

Too many of the recent books about the Religious Left declare easy victory, the triumph of modest faith and...

Sharlet: D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power, offers this helpful corrective to a

Sharlet: I recently met an activist and memoirist named Michael Patrick McDonald, who for his second book, Easter...

Introducing... Revealer fiction. Relax, fact fans, The Revealer isn't about to go all literary on you. But longtime Revealer...