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Religious people who want their government to deny legal marriage to gays and lesbians ought to think more clearly about the rights they would lose if the wall between church and state were to crumble.

Drawing on sources as diverse as feminist theology, biblical criticism and Midrash, renowned poet Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s latest book of essays seeks to rescue the Bible from the clutches of narrow conservatism.

To all the breathless detractors of “flyover country,” think about the history of Iowa before expressing shock.

How did Christianity become so commercial? Is religious punk rock an oxymoron? The author of a new book on suburban evangelicalism and Christian heavy metal shows how Christian youth culture has been commodified and sold to secular audiences.

On Good Friday, New York’s Trinity Church reenacted the Passion Play via Twitter, the latest social-networking sensation. Nathan Schneider reports on multitasking his way through the service.

From pew to pixel; does the virtual fulfillment of religious sentiments disorient or does it lead to more “real” forms of participation?

Mark Silk’s recent analysis of the rift between the “prophets” and the “priests” of the left hinges on the assumption that reaching out to centrist evangelicals will help Democrats. But will it?

Drawn from the Bible, Kings takes a risk that pays off. Plus, we get Ian McShane.

Television fails once again to do justice to the complexity of biblical narrative.

When we take the approach that “all are sinners,” we confuse big-time criminality with small-time folly. This moral obfuscation allows the far greater misfeasance of corporate creditors to get airbrushed out of the picture.