Killing the Buddha

A New Testament spin on an Old Testament game.

Private Lynndie England pictures fashion and fascism in Abu Ghraib.

Still strange, but different: Three new books look at the changing shape of religion in America.

The new neocons ask: What would Abraham do?

Jesus says kids had better stay in school—or he’ll send Robert Milner to bust their asses.

Dara Horn sets out to write the Great American Yiddish Novel — in English.

Why the state should not pray on September 11th.

With a little bit of God mixed in, even dirt tastes good.

What does a miracle look like? Three opinions, as revealed in Henderson, North Carolina.

James Martin’s strange paintings make him the Martin Luther of the art world.

If the body is a temple, what happens to faith when it’s destroyed?

Looking for an effective way to get your militant evangelical point across? Try fried goodness. They’re holy.

Michael Lesy’s Long Time Coming is a coffee table book that ticks.

“I had on the hot pants, I said I wuz for sale! But Jesus wasn’t buyin.”

A theology of sex shops, movies, and nothingness may be the biggest thing to hit Christianity since Martin Luther.