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The student of theology revels in the grandeur, emotion and beauty of a clear moment of human interconnectedness. It is the student of ethics, however, that lets her eyes wander further beyond the pitch. With that drift the existential beauty becomes more complicated; potentially tragic.

Does the resurgence of the John Birch Society signal a Reconstructionist resurgence, too?

Not since The Israel Lobby has a Jewish book evoked so much ire and criticism from the American Jewish community.

In The Mirage, 9/11 is actually 11/9, the day when Christian fundamentalists from Texas slammed airliners into Baghdad skyscrapers, sparking a war on terror that rages across a nearly unrecognizable North America. Will Americans go for a book where the world power is the United Arab States and the lead characters are almost all Arabs and Muslims?

Many first learned of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints when the polygamous group came into the media spotlight following leader Warren Jeffs’ arrest (and eventual conviction) as an accomplice to rape. Pictures of young women in “prairie dresses” were splashed on TV and the media rushed to try to explain who these people actually were. Were they Mormons? Were they a cult? Sons of Perdition, a documentary that premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, follows the story of a group of teenage boys who have left the FLDS church, and tracks their struggles in exile from their homes and families.

According to the Census Bureau, white babies account for less than half of U.S. births. How will white Christians, who have long believed this to be a white Christian nation, respond?

The NAACP’s unanimous resolution calling for the Tea Party to distance itself from its racist elements has set off the invective of the movement’s supporters. Comments have ranged…

Last Tuesday, Glenn Beck dedicated an entire episode to attacking liberation theology and one of its greatest proponents, James Cone. RD speaks to the president of Union Theological Seminary to talk about liberation theology, hate, and the longterm prospects for progressive Christianity.

The week’s religion news.

A new four-volume work from the Vatical Library suggests that the concerns of the papacy in the early modern period were focused almost entirely on the new threat posed by the Protestants. If some scientists, especially the astronomers, got caught in the cross-fire, then this was only because they were perceived to be Protestant-style “free thinkers.”