Hillary's Third Way

May 10, 2008
Adapted from "Interesting Blood" in The Family for The New Republic.

Please Destroy After Reading

May 9, 2008
Sharlet: Jonathan Schwarz at A Tiny Revolution makes a connection between the secrecy of The Family the subject...

The Church of Politics

May 9, 2008
Pastor Dan of Street Prophets, a progressive religious group blog, parses the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of a Christian...

Clinton's Pastor Problem Redux

May 8, 2008
Jeff Weiss of the Dallas Morning News wonders if Hillary Clinton’s Doug Coe connection is as troubling to her...

In Pork She Trusts

April 30, 2008
Republicans aren’t the only ones who believe in using faith-based initiatives to win votes. In the month before the...

Crossing the Line

April 30, 2008
Rob Boston, church/state separation activist and writer, caught a recent episode of Christian Right leader Janet Folger's "Faith2Action" radio...

NYT vs. Jeremiah Wright, Pt. 3

April 30, 2008
Maureen Dowd, the noted columnist and student of African American religious history, jumps on the NYT Jeremiah Wright hate...

Radio Show

April 30, 2008
Sharlet: I believe I’ll be on the CBC — Canadian Broadcasting Company — program “The Current” Wednesday morning, discussing...

Mormon "Genocide"?

April 29, 2008
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has created a blog, Captive FLDS Children.org, to...

Real Wright and Wrong

April 29, 2008
Sharlet: I'm putting Diana Butler-Bass' response to the Jeremiah Wright media tour in the "timeless" category because her response...

NYT vs. Jeremiah Wright, Pt. 2

April 29, 2008
The NYT’s Bob Herbert (writing in the opinion pages, at least), joins the liberal elite’s outrage over Jeremiah Wright....

NYT to Rev. Wright: Be Quiet!

April 29, 2008
Holly Berman: A surrogate for the Obama campaign announced today that in light of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s decision...

More Andrea Elliott Brilliance

April 28, 2008
Another brilliant portrait of New York City Islam from the NYT’s Andrea Elliott — a major feature on the...

Bishop Goes to Market

April 25, 2008
There’s some irony that Bishop Gene Robinson, the out gay Episcopal prelate, has been relegated to the “Marketplace” at...

Between the Motion and the Act

April 25, 2008
"Between the idea /And the reality," reads Omri Elisha's epigraph for his new anthropological study of evangelical compassion, "Between...

Clinton, Coe, and the King

April 25, 2008
What do the king of Norway and Hillary and Clinton have in common? They’re both pals with Doug Coe,...

Atheism Backlash, Part Two

April 23, 2008
Given that atheism's most visible champions are three smart boy writers -- Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins...

Jesus Christ, Vegas Showgirl

April 23, 2008
What’s worse than Mel Gibson’s Passion? A biography of Jesus by the director of Showgirls. Next up: Brett Ratner...

Cult Rock!

April 22, 2008
NPR reporter Jennifer Sharpe describes her journalistic immersion into the "ooga booga" of Father Yod's Source Family commune, the...

Rightward Bound

April 22, 2008
Religious right watcher Bill Berkowitz, whose work we’ve touted before, joined two scholars we admire — Bruce Schulman and...

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