...the Catholic Church seems to find "radical feminist" ideology.  Even if the gatherers are cookie-hawking tweens.  And members of...

Amy Levin: It’s barely been a day and President Barack Obama’s personal endorsement (belief? affirmation? slow and agonizing...

Becky Garrison: A Gallup poll released on May 20, 2011 states that for the first time a majority (53%) of...

Amy Levin: “Aren’t these topics the very ones your mother warned you never to raise at a dinner party?”...

Ashley Baxstrom: The Huffington Post announced on Friday that its very own Arianna Huffington – the Post’s namesake? Editor? Aggregator...

From Peter Brown's review of the Met's "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Century)," at The New...

From the Los Angeles Review of Books, a review of Don DeLillo's The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, by...

Amy Levin: Jewish parents today have their pick of ethically themed children’s books with just-enough-but-not-too-much religion. But there’s something...

I'm three weeks down, one to go.  Serving justice in Brooklyn has kept me quiet, but here's what I'm...

…most residents of Trivandrum had not been clamoring for the temple’s vaults to be searched. This had initially puzzeled...

In a statement on their website and a follow-up video released on April 5th, IC elaborates on the background...

Amy Levin: Given that today and tomorrow mark two extremely important national holidays in Israel beginning with

Ashley Baxstrom: You’ve probably heard at this point about the Vatican’s statement concerning what it considers to be the...

From Holland Cotter's article on his visit to the sunken churches of Lalibela: A priest, in white, stood at...

Anthea Butler at Religion Dispatches David Badash at The New Civil Rights Movement Jeff Sharlet on Twitter Michael...

Rachel Barenblat at Velveteen Rabbi summarizes last Saturday’s Bloggercon session on religion and blogging.

THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents: CHUNG KUO - CHINA (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1972), 208 min. Introduced by Angela Zito WHEN: Tuesday...

The bishops have taken nearly four years to plan their renovation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.  The...

Nora Connor: In 2008 the Chinese government recognized the annual Qingming festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day, as a national...

Becky Garrison: The Miss Universe Organization’s decision to change their rules so that transgender women can compete appears to...

The Catholic Church understands far better than patients’ rights advocates do how religion, gender and sexuality work in society....

Intelligent design, Günter Grass, Kathryn Joyce on Santorum's family, Kony, Andrew Sullivan's call to follow Jesus, me and feeding...

by Alex Thurston This post is the first of a series on Muslim schooling in Northern Nigeria. Steady acts of violence...

Becky Garrison:  Even though the Family Research Council was designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty...