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At the Fathers’ House International church in Henderson, Kentucky, Pastor Lisa Bourland is seated on the floor of the altar in the prayer room washing the feet of speakers for that evening’s Women, Weapons of Warfare (WWW) conference. Behind her is a blank movie screen—the…

For those who may not remember, the Doctor actually was involved in the original Big Bang…

It all started this past May with an email composed by an undergraduate student in “Introduction to Catholicism and Modern Catholic Thought,” a course offered in the Religious Studies department at the University of Illinois. The student forwarded to the department chair an email the…

British comedy writer and celebrity journalist Jane Bussmann had a revelation while interviewing actor Ashton Kutcher at a Hollywood café: She really had to find something more meaningful to do. So she embarked on a Google quest for the most evil man in the world and found Joseph…

From Australia to Ethiopia, more evidence that anti-gay activists from the U.S. are having a troubling influence abroad.

The services I attended at Philadelphia’s Congregation Temple Bethel were loud and joyous, but I felt totally out of place. That was a familiar feeling, of course. My two Jewish parents raised me without any religious education. (My father, a butcher, takes an almost perverse delight in flouting his non-belief with gestures like giving me lard as a Christmas present.) But I was more at ease this morning, because it was not expected that I understand the rituals because I look like a Jew. I was one of the only white people in shul that morning, and it was nice to look as out of place as I usually feel.

Islamophobia is an ideological project and it is not limited to cartoons. It is not the purview of the political right. It is not a Zionist conspiracy. It is not an evangelical polemic. It draws on the uncertainty about Islam that pervades the American public square since 9/11.

Few writers could to pick a theme as grand as the global interplay of democracy and religion and hope to utter the final word on the subject. In his latest book, Ian Buruma, a journalist and historian with over a dozen seminal books to his…

A new book by Krista Tippett, host of NPR’s “Speaking of Faith,” furthers the heartfelt intervention in the culture wars that her show represents.

The author discusses his journey through a Muslim subculture, the connection between Nietzsche and Hendrix, and how heavy metal might end the war on terror…