An excerpt from Austin Dacey's review of Christopher Hitchens' new memoir, Hitch-22: The Christian West, after all, did not...

Mary Valle: A huge New York Times piece on the Ratzinger-led Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith's role in...

But only when you expect your public school to pay for it. Back in November, the Supreme Court agreed...

Newsweek's annual "50 Most Influential Rabbis in America" list is just out and Debra Nussbaum Cohen at the...

From Chris Dierkes at Beams and Struts: "Adam Gopnik writes: As the Bacchae knew, we always tear our Gods...

Despite calls from sponsors to disinvite Jim Wallis as keynote speaker at next week's Lifest, an Evangelical...

Could a Democratic Supreme Court nominee do less for progressive or liberal objectives than Elena Kagan?  It's hard to...

From an essay by Scott Corales, first published in Paranoia Magazine and reprinted at Inexplicata.  (h/t David Metcalfe): "At...

Read Becky Garrison's post, "Andy Warhol's Last Supper" at Killing the Buddha.

The Forsyth Area Critical Thinkers (FACT) and the Forsyth County Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church...

Diane Winston (the Knight chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, master of...

Michael Cook at BioEdge writes that what happens in bioethics in the U.S., Britain, and Australia is worth watching...

At Religion & Ethics weekly, David E. Anderson examines Mark Rothko's theological legacy: The poet Stanley Kunitz once...

Despite disastrous ratings declines, Glenn Beck continues to be hard to ignore.  Lately he's taken to "red-baiting" the...

Don't miss Susan Henking's article today at Religion Dispatches on second wave feminism, theology, and gender equality in...

Three months after elections in Iraq, a new Prime Minister has not yet been selected to form a new...

Last week, lightning struck the infamous "Touchdown Jesus" outside an Ohio church.  (They had no lightning protection, I...

From the Augusta Chronicle comes one of the best opening lines of the year:  "Spencer Evans was consumed in...

Or a grilled cheese sandwich?  Or a porch door? (Warning:  Do not continue reading if you're the casino...

Yesterday, reports CNN, was designated a day of prayer by Louisiana's desperate state senate.  The decision was made...

Mary Valle: I thought that the easiest thing in the world might be eating pudding or sleeping or watching...

Newsweek's religion editor, Lisa Miller, contributes to the recent conversation about Sarah Palin's "feminism," but instead of parsing...

Stephanie Butnick: With the arrival of CNN's Belief Blog, Angie Chuang at Poynter asks, "Is the Belief...

Thaddeus Pope, a professor at Widener School of Law and (the well-named) keeper of the site Medical Futility Blog...