popular culture

In a recent visit to Yankee Stadium, the Family Osteen preached its Cotton Candy Gospel. Why did the media overlook the deep pockets of the sponsors of the costly event and the dubious nature of the charity they pushed?

A new campaign aims to change attitudes around mental illness.

The Atlanta Falcons, defenders of the Georgia Dome, “fought, harassed, stuffed, smothered, and smacked” their way to victory last week. What is it about football that brings out such primal intensity in its fans?

Has the shift from sociability to social-networking left Garrison Keillor clinging to his Wobegone Lutherans of yesteryear? What of the glaring problems of those “simpler times?”

From essays on same-sex segregation in Orthodoxy to the Jewish case against marriage to queer theology, this collection—edited by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg—offers everything you ever wanted to know about Judaism and sexuality but were afraid to ask.

For the Greeks, museums were sacred places dedicated to the muses. How is it that the Catholic Church got into the pagan shrine business?

It seems as if Beck, Conservapedia and others are trying to call themselves Christian when what they are espousing has nothing to do with Christian brotherly love.

The characters in this adult, anti-fantasy novel of hope (and magic) lost appear to teach the lesson that Harry Potter probably ended up hating himself, and life, after the end of book seven. But would a less dour novel have been so highly praised?

Two eminent physicists have hypothesized that the Higgs boson might be hated by God to such an extent that if one occurred it would go back in time and stop itself from being made.

Does the cross work as a universal symbol for our war dead including Jews, Muslims, and atheists? It works for “Ply-druids.”