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“So Israel’s Prime Minister was arguing with the Pope over what language Jesus spoke” sounds like the setup to a weird joke. Which, actually, it is. Lasting just a few seconds, the dustup reflects…

Today is my last official day for completing local business before departure.

The kids are alright, but the parents can be so cruel.

An exclusive Religion Dispatches interview with the late historian of religions Mircea Eliade, conducted (by seance?) via Ira Chernus:

Alternative rock, with its default anti-establishment stance (whether feigned or forthright) has not been the typical go-to place for sincere religious music. That may be changing. Though stylistically diverse, several recent releases show a unique motif: treating religious histories and sacred texts as fonts of wisdom, experience, and poetry.

Even if they did, that’s not why they lost.

106 openly gay candidates were elected to office around the country. And that’s a record.

Sri Chinmoy wanted to win a Nobel prize, and to be more famous than the Dalai Lama or the Pope. Jayanti Tamm writes a book about what happens when a good guru goes bad.

The Tea Party is claiming credit for the Republican trouncing of the Democrats last night, but the Tea Party wave is just an illusion.

In the words of Jon Stewart: “You go, and then I’ll go…”