The President says he’s a “soldier of God.” His inspiration is Jesus. And he’s fighting the “emperor of evil.”...

God apparently prefers Coors. Peter Coors, that is, the brewery heir who won yesterday’s Republican primary for the open...

David Domke, University of Washington professor and author of the just-released book, God Willing?: Political Fundamentalism in the White House,...

Veli-Matti Karkkainen, a Finnish theologian who has taught at Fuller Theological Seminary, the United States’ largest interdenominational seminary, since...

Blogging from Baghdad: “I always love passing by the churches. It gives me a momentary sense that everything must...

Why Bush will win: “Bush isn’t a fire-and-brimstone preacher, talking about sinners in the hands of an angry God. He’s...

Christianity Today’s Steven Gertz draws attention to another bill currently before the Senate, overlooked as attention focused on the Federal...

CBC News reports that the Vatican is setting up a sports department “to move the Roman Catholic Church closer to...

Derrick Z. Jackson of The Boston Globe praises John Kerry for the much-repeated sound bite from his acceptance speech last night: “‘I...

National Review readers loved Barack Obama’s DNC speech because, they claim, it was conservative — as evidence, they offer among...

John Hall reports for the Media General News Service on an all-day conference sponsored by the Wesley Theological Seminary as part of...

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

“‘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...

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...

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...