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...

Day One — and ten years to go. So says Chuck Colson, Nixon dirty trickster turned evangelical leader, about...

An American pope? Conservative pundit Charlotte Allen takes a new tack in the debate over how much religion politicians should put...

Gwynne Dyer, in the Trinidad and Tobogo Express, laments the state of religion and politics in Nigeria — especially as...

“There was a cartoon a few weeks ago, I forget where, and there was a drawing of someone giving...

Reuters’s Parisa Hafezi reports on concern among some Iranian clergy that a secular, democratic Iraq may shift the balance of power...

Shortly before meeting with Vatican officials, Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, made a rare public statement of his...

“Pastors say they never instruct their congregations how to vote, but in many ways they don’t have to. Even...

Timorese Foreign Minister and Nobel peace prize winner Jose Ramos Horta warned yesterday that God could punish Australia if...

The Rev. Lon Solomon counts among his congregants and close friends Bush commerce secretary Don Evans, Clinton prosecutor Kenneth...

Holly Berman diagnoses a dangerous case of double dipping: Bestselling historian Niall Ferguson regurgitates his latest Foreign Policy “warning” for the editorial page of The...

Ever the multi-tasker, God has taken up the cause of the anti-EU UK Independence Party. At least according to...

Dr. Tom Frame, Anglican bishop to the Australian Defence Force, offers this mea culpa in The Melbourne Anglican: “As the...

–That was a good answer our friend made to the canon. What? said Mr. Dedalus. –I didn’t think he...

8:44 pm: One of the bloggers at Not Perfection puts the events of the week in perspective. “I feel bad about Ronald...