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Sasha Polakow-Suransky reported last month in The Guardian that he had found evidence that Israel planned to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa in 1975, prompting the Israeli government to issue an official denial. Polakow-Suransky’s new book, “The Unspoken Alliance” is a history of Israel’s military alliance with apartheid South Africa.

This episode perhaps works better as a parable of romance than a parable of religion. But popular religion in the Christian tradition has placed a lot of focus on…

Christopher Hitchens cannot be accused of being a name-dropper. The names come positively flinging off the pages of his newly-released memoir, Hitch-22, but can he be blamed for befriending some of the most interesting and influential figures of his time, like Salman Rushdie, Edward…

Histories of war and the military are often written as if war were a completely areligious practice. We have occasional stories of exceptionally devout generals (or presidents) and aphorisms about atheists and foxholes, but few historians seem interested in weaving religion into narratives of American war-craft whether as a way of thinking about decisions to enter war…

Protest of church-sponsored “family” rally in Taiwan includes Buddhist Nuns

In the wake of the June 28th Supreme Court ruling, thoughts on the gun’s sacred role in US culture and our God-given right to be violent…

Is it believable that the Pro-Life Action League, a group with a spotty past, has published identifying information of abortion-rights activists in order to help supporters pray for individuals?

While President Obama, in his much-debated Oval Office Address last week, seemed to be calling Americans to personal prayer, activist Drew Landry’s vision is more collective, and possibly more practical. He believes the simple discipline of praying in unison will get people to pay more attention to the disaster being laid out at their doorsteps. Meanwhile, experts like Len Bahr say it is too late to restore the Gulf. The problem in dealing with the environmental disaster, he says, whether by prayer or science, is that nobody knows how bad it will get before it can get better.

The Hungry Earth.

Fifty years ago this past Sunday, feminist theology of the second wave was born. Well, maybe not born—but it made it into Time, under the headline “Religion: Male and Female Theology.” Yes, Monday, June 27, 1960. The cover picture: US Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II…