In Lieu of Hobbits

September 6, 2011
An interview with Jeff Sharlet about his new book of essays, Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithless, and...

Sweet Heaven

August 21, 2011
My predecessor, founding editor of The Revealer, Jeff Sharlet, has a new book out that you should all

The UK's Values, Re-Discovered

August 18, 2011
Gordon Lynch, Michael Ramsey professor of modern theology at the University of Kent and contributor to The...

Hollywood's Magical Negroes

August 18, 2011
An excerpt from Roxane Gay's "The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts...

August 14, 2011
From Neal Gabler's article, "The Elusive Big Idea," at The New York Times yesterday: It is no secret, especially...
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Been Around For a Long, Long Year

August 13, 2011
A Review of  No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism, by David...

Liberty, the Word

August 8, 2011
From Ryan Lizza's profile of Michele Bachmann at The New Yorker: Liberty is the concept—or at least the word—most...

Mormons in Africa

June 26, 2011
From James Fenton's review of the Broadway musical by the creators of "South Park," "The Book of Mormon," at...

The Church Needs Men

June 22, 2011
It's no secret there's a short supply of Catholic priests in the US, so when we heard that the...

"Touch" the Infinite

June 16, 2011
From "Oh, Infinite Stream of Data and Light" by Beatrice Marovich, at Killing the Buddha: But what if, perhaps,...

Authentically Baptist

June 16, 2011
From the website of Central Baptist Church of Wayne, PA: In affirming the historic Baptist principle of non-creedalism, Central...

The Morals of Midas

June 12, 2011
An excerpt from Thomas Frank's "Gold Faithful," from the July issue of Harper's Magazine, on gold as a "moral...

Whole Lotta Testosterone

June 3, 2011
by Mary Valle I don’t think that men and women are the same. I think we have a lot in...

The Medievals Loved Creation

May 31, 2011
Chris Armstrong on Emile Male and the medieval "love affair" with Creation: On the theme of what I think...

We Were Born This Way

May 13, 2011
Is it really any surprise that religion's not going away?  It can't because we're born with it.  So says...

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