José Saramago, a Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize winner, died last month.  He was 87.  From Baltasar and Blimunda,...

Amidst budget cuts and a long, pronounced decline in attendance, the fight to preserve medeival churches in England is...

"Cryonics is my only hope that I will ever meet my grandmother again."  A new company in Russia, KrioRus,...

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

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.

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

"But now, the performance in the atrium seemed to hark back to the long-toppled notion of art’s special power:...

By Daniel Okrent: William Ashley Sunday of the Philadelphia Phillies, who became world-famous for loving Christ and hating alcohol, put...

There wasn’t a dearth of death in Benares; as one walked or drove on its streets, small groups of...

The Reformed Reader quotes Carl Trueman's 2008 book, The Minority Report, on the two "disempowering" ways that...

An excerpt from the introduction to Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics and the ArtScroll Revolution, released...

More faith leaders are performing blessings for dogs, cats, and G-d's other creatures. by Michael Croland As Shabbat drew to a...

Michael Croland: Maryann Fuchs does not know why she takes her dogs to Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church year...

We've been a giant fan of BibliOdyssey, a site of printed treasures curated by Peacay (or...

If the Pope says it's real... Pope Benedict XVI has declared the Shroud of Turin authentic. Writes Chris...

When my tender soul was saved dozens of years ago at Circle K camp in the rolling river hills...

Stephen Prothero writes at Killing the Buddha: I love the idea of mysticism—the notion that divinity comes to us...

Ann Neumann: A new hashtag on twitter this morning: #popearrest.

Ann Neumann: Today the Heritage Foundation — called the most influential conservative think tank in DC with more than 600,000 members...

Ann Neumann: John Paul Stevens retires. Read James Toobin’s profile of the Supreme Court justice from last month at...

McKay Coppins at Mormon Times asked his readers what they think of Glenn Beck.

Ann Neumann: Are you shopping for a new liturgical calendar? (h/t @TexasBishop)

Elissa Lerner: Plenty of confusing news about dietary laws lately. First, there was the whole lox fiasco, claiming that the...