Historian Julia Rabig writes in to decode one of journalism’s most abused catchphrases, “culture war”: Just two examples: Lyle Denniston of The Boston Globe informs...

If there’s a pun in The New York Observer‘s hed, “Let’s Holla for Kaballah,” we’re missing it. But that’s the...

The Revealer will be speaking at a conference, “The Belief Beat: Religion & Journalism,”at Yale Divinity School tonight. Preparations must be...

The New York Times seems have divided up religion on its op-ed page Crossfire-style. From the left, Nicholas Kristof. From the right, David...

Is John Kerry a man of clay? The Golem

Scholars, wonks, and rebbeles; mameles and makhers-in-their-own-minds; such are the denizens of… well, it’s hard to say what they’re...

First, apologies — Jewschool informs us that there is a name for the Jewish blogosphere — jBlog. Second — jBlog, how...

Jimmy Carter is, as ever, diplomatic in his denunciation of the White House’s current religion. In The American Prospect, he tells Ayelish...

San Francisco Chronicle religion writer Don Lattin weighs in on disgraced USA Today journo Jack Kelley: “Kelley — who resigned earlier this year amid allegations that...

“Conservative Christian homeschoolers are big on critical thinking,” says one such, “so they wouldn’t be led by the nose.”...

A bit after the fact but better-considered: The great Gary Wills weighs in on The Passion in The New York Review of Books. Regular...

The Catholic Church isn’t the only institution gripped by scandal — the Swedenborgians have been having a hot time of it...

“I break so many taboos when I become a suicide bomber…. I think this nihilism is very new. It’s...

At Eichler’s bookstore in Flatbush (that’s in Brooklyn, folks), Marc Shapiro‘s new book has been flying off the shelves; at...

God has spoken: “George Bush is going to win in a walk,” says the Lord (via mouthpiece Pat Robertson), “… it...

St. Blog’s Parish, the Catholic blogosphere that’s rapidly displacing the Catholic print press, is something of a moveable feast....

Two Unitarian ministers in upstate New York have become the first clergy members to face criminal charges for performing...

Last year, four days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention issued a...

We almost called The Revealer “God Beat,” and thank God we didn’t — the more time we’ve spent studying religion in...

Brian Flemming is the man behind Bat Boy: The Musical, and his blog is everything you’d expect from a man with...

Librarian Rachelle Linner explores the Roman Catholic blogosphere — “St. Blog’s Parish,” as it’s known — and finds it wanting. “The clearest...