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This four-day rock fest in rural Tennessee is an endurance event, to be sure, but for many it is a makeshift spiritual retreat—a “vibrational healing ground.” The second in a three part series…

In which our intrepid writers let the ethereal sounds of Sigur Ros ripple and echo through them, and learn to speak “hopelandic.”

Reverend Annett noticed that in spite of the large Native American population on Vancouver Island, none of them attended his church.

Whether it’s Kobe Bryant, Alex Rodriguez, Michael Vick, or, more recently, Tiger Woods, the confession is the key to repairing moral failure in the world of sports.

Nominee Erroll Southers’ discussion of domestic terrorism threat of “Christian identity” groups does not mean “Christians.”

What does it mean that the World War II Memorial in DC drowns conversation in the roar of its fountains? A new book explains what our monuments reveal about the intertwining of sacred and patriotic in American civic culture.

Harry Reid claimed that Obama was electable because he had no African-American dialect… is that even true?

Author Stephen Mansfield is getting hate mail. Why does the religious right think that this ex-pastor will roast in hell?

It’s not hedonistic abandon that draws folks to the rock fest, but something else…

My husband can run out to the door in his shorts and in what some people refer to tellingly as a “wife-beater” while I must be fully dressed, complete with appropriate underwear; it’s only partially based in religion.