Europe

Killing the Buddha

Strays

By Tarrah Krajnak | May 21, 2012

A Peruvian baby is adopted. 32 years later, she returns with her camera.

Lookalikes of Kate Middleton, Britain's Prince William and Queen Elizabeth stand outside a church during a media event in London. From Reuters.

Prince William Ate My Religion

By Theo Hobson | April 18, 2011

The royal wedding is a reminder of what’s wrong with Anglicanism.

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Pontifigate Comes to Downing Street

By Mary Valle | April 28, 2010

Young Steven Mulvain has come under fire for a leaked British Foreign Office memo in which he suggests some activities for the Pope in his upcoming visit to Britain, including “asking the Pope to open an abortion clinic, bless a gay marriage and launch a range of Benedict-branded condoms.” The Foreign Office has apologized profusely…

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Found in Translation

By Jeff Sharlet | July 1, 2008

A faith found in Tulsa translates to Berlin

Would a children's book be a better response?

A Whole Lot of Stupid

By Martyn Oliver | March 13, 2006

And other factors involved in the transformation of cartoons into riots.

"In Islam, it is not the content of an image that is blasphemous, but the very act of depiction."

The Right to Blaspheme

By Christopher Orlet | February 3, 2006

“God is not mocked,” and other proposed editorial guidelines.

"'Show some respect,' I told myself. After all, Mary is a Jewish mother."

The Only Jew for Miles

By Gordon Haber | August 17, 2005

An unlikely pilgrim to Poland sees more, and less, than he’d hoped.

Black Darkness at rest

St. Patrick’s Purim Shpiel

By Benjamin Weiner | March 14, 2003

An American Jew dresses up like an Irishman, and tells of his odyssey through the land of blarney.

Artist's rendering of the proposed national German Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

An Immodest Proposal

By Melvin Jules Bukiet | September 12, 2002

The Berlin Holocaust memorial threatens closure for a wound the author wants to remain open.