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More personal and less archetypical than her previous records, Welch’s new album tells stories of American religious realism and spiritual strivings both anonymously mythical and personally individual.

Bye bye Beck or hello to an American Historian?

Mormon humor may just offset some of the differences in Mitt’s and Obama’s campaign coffers.

Support for his prayer rally? Check. For a presidential bid? We’ll see.

Will permit religious organizations to ignore legal status in matters of health care.

Yesterday’s false story on the UCC dropping the Trinity got it backwards: it’s about all the UCC congregations do agree on. And that’s okay.

For three months, the city of Windsor, Ontario was abuzz with the story of a Virgin Mary statue that wept tears of oil. Ensconced in a small shrine built on Fadia Ibrahim’s front lawn, the statue attracted hundreds of pilgrims, though it caused havoc for neighbors, city officials, and…

Adios to God the Father? More like adios, credibility.

Thoughts on Lind’s essay.

A history of what began as a clique of kids on the street, developed into a disciplined organization that reordered the nature of gang relations in Chicago (inaugurating the alliances of various gangs under the umbrella “People” and “Folk” labels), and was reinvented by its “Chief” as first a Moorish Science and then an Islamic religious organization; all the while running a variety of criminal enterprises, culminating in negotiations with the Libyan government with the hopes of being paid in exchange for unleashing certain amount of targeted violence in Chicago. There’s a series of huge stories here, and this book—while certainly the best resource on the subject—is hurt by the sheer range of material it has to address.