Killing the Buddha

If the Religious Left is to lift, everyone counts — the soccer moms and sex workers, the cowboy preachers and radical faeries, and you.

A faith found in Tulsa translates to Berlin

A story of reading, dying, and being two things at once, from the new book Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes.

Jonathan Edwards and the making of America.

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.