Killing the Buddha

Anne Hutchinson’s “No in Thunder.”

Grappling with James Agee’s punctuation, one hundred years after his birth.

The godly get good on climate change.

The disastrous politics of Rapture, in an excerpt from Patience with God.

Saint Hildegard and the science of religious experience.

Why all the little beards?

The power and danger of Isaac Newton’s faith.

The introduction to Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith.

Jesus on the cross is one thing, but her father is another.

Some thoughts on masturbation, Mailer, and the Good Book.

The crusade for a Christian military.

The news is trying to make itself the Good News.

“I’m a real motherfucker,” he says. “But I won’t sell a fake.”

Finding a fix in the dust of the Holy Land.

An atheist descends into the underworld of the Israeli antiquities trade.

Allah was born on February 22, 1928. His mother named him Clarence.

A Russian nun and her impossible song, in an excerpt from Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World’s Holy Dead.

An exclusive excerpt from Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement from Beacon Press.