Nora Connor: In Poland, the Bhagavad Gita is now available in translation directly from Sanskrit to Polish, thanks...

Some of the best religion and media reads from around the webs this week.

Schiavo, Beinart, Stem Cells, NOM, and CSW!

Ashley Baxstrom:  Where would we be without the Huffington Post? NOT in the know about the most and...

Amy Levin:  While the image of Oprah endorsing transcendental meditation is about as banal as a priest offering the...

Maybe use of fear and violence isn’t the best way to teach about fear and violence. Ashley Baxstrom:  This headline...

Amy Levin: The New York Times committed a liberal faux pas last month. As if they'd forgotten just how...

Ashley Baxstrom: It’s a curious culture we live in when a children’s event has to be cancelled because people...

I'll be on a panel with the amazing Susan Gerbino, Amber Hollibaugh, Ai-Jen Poo and Robert Campbell on April...

Florida Times-Union writer Phillip Milano spoke with me--and Philip Jenkins--about "anti-Catholic" bias in the media.

Ashley Baxstrom: Today we celebrate the vernal equinox, herald of spring, which reportedly arrived at 1:14...

Don't miss in media res' fantastic series of events, "Religious Representations on Television," from today through Friday.  See...

Some rights gains are never permanent. By Amy Levin As the climate...

Russian gay extremists; Patronizing employers; A Brownback woman; Jesus' juice; Milquetoast Patel; Other, the world's 12th religion; Liberty wolves;...

James Curcio at Modern Mythology on Kony2012 and "virality": You see, for something to become "viral" it has to...

The Southern Party:  I'm betting Santorum takes Alabama and Mississippi tonight. In the meanwhile, read Alec MacGillis at...

It's been more than a decade since the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal rocked Boston.  In that time, Survivors...

Mary Valle:  Fr. Marcel Guarnizo, the priest who denied Barbara Johnson (also known as the "lesbian Barbara Johnson") communion...

Join us at the NYU Bookstore on Wednesday, March 21, for another event in our Revealer Reading Series: March, 21...

My chum Kiera Feldman has a piece up at New York Magazine on Ken Starr's latest politically motivated sex...

From Andrew Hartman's recent post at U.S. Intellectual History, "The Politics of Epistemology," in which he excerpts the...

Ashley Baxstrom:  The Swiss upper house on Monday buried a motion to ban the burqa, which had passed...

On February 22, 2011, Jeffrey White, a Federal judge in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, ruled...

This week the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools denied an appeal by a Jewish Orthodox school team...