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Chosen

By Jeff Sharlet | July 9, 2009

King David as a model for present-day political power. An excerpt from The Family.

Bayard Rustin in 1963

Gays Are the New Niggers

By Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou | June 26, 2009

40 years after the Stonewall riots, what Bayard Rustin means for American democracy.

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney at prayer

The Full Armor of God

By Nathan Schneider | May 25, 2009

Donald Rumsfeld took the LORD’s name in vain.

ST. PAUL, MN - SEPTEMBER 01: Delegates bow their heads on day one of the Republican National Convention (RNC) at the Xcel Energy Center September 1, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota. The GOP will nominate U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as the Republican choice for U.S. President on the last day of the convention. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Original Filename: GYI0055603845.jpg

It’s the Theology, Stupid

By Frank Schaeffer | April 29, 2009

Understanding the Republican disconnect, explained by one of the people who helped create it.

No Union upon any terms. Th. Nast

(Dis)Integrating Church and State

By Gordon Haber | October 23, 2008

Someone might be tinkering with God’s voting machine.

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Forgiving

By Laurel Snyder | October 4, 2008

An open apology to Sarah Palin. Really.

photo by David Katz/Obama for America

A Niche of a Prayer in a Vulnerable Place

By Stephen Prothero | August 4, 2008

A voyeur, a thief, and Barack Obama at the Wailing Wall.

Mansur al-Hallaj hanged and stoned.

How to Make a Martyr

By Martyn Oliver | February 24, 2007

When a death becomes larger than life, memory hangs in the balance.

"When I finally recognize his costume, I smile, shake my head, and say, 'Look at you!'"

Prime Directive

By David Griffith | October 30, 2006

This Halloween, how about wearing a truly monstrous costume? A haunting excerpt from A Good War is Hard to Find

"Yeah, but don't you want to look good?"

How Do I Look?

By Jeff Guhin | February 21, 2006

As the old saying goes: If you’re not a slobby activist when you’re twenty, you don’t have a heart. If you’re not a fashion plate by thirty, it’s time to go shopping.

"Burma is a dangerous place! I know, I saw Beyond Rangoon!"

Motherly Love

By Diana Winston | December 14, 2005

Thus spoke Buddha’s mother: Fine, fine, be enlightened. But would it kill you to call now and then?

"A poverty that would keep us free."

It Makes Great Press

By Peter Smith | July 26, 2005

A group of New England Buddhists finds Zen in the art of panhandling–but at what cost?

George W. Bush and his "chief enabler."

The Gospel According to Dubya

By Steve Almond | September 4, 2004

What would Jesus do… about the president invoking his name?

Sudanese street scene

Drinking in Tongues

By Vinton Kevitt | July 8, 2004

In Sudan, a wayward youth faces the wrath of Mom, Dad, and Allah.

Iraqi prisoner, Abu Ghraib prison; Virgin Mary statuette, Houston, Texas.

Our Lady of Minor Hostilities

By Peter Manseau | May 2, 2004

A new icon emerges from Iraq.

John Kerry

John Kerry vs. Martin Luther

By Christopher Orlet | March 31, 2004

The Catholic Kerry preaches that it is Good Works, not Faith alone that justifies.

Bob Jones

Being Black at Bob Jones U.

By Florence Williams | August 14, 2003

A fundamentalist university enters the age of integration. Sort of.

Mitre Peak, New Zealand

Coming Home, O Lord, I’m Coming Home

By Cheryl Pearl Sucher | April 4, 2003

An expat returns to America just in time for holy war.