“Spiritual leader or sci-fi con artist?” Reminded by the recent antics of Tom Cruise “and Katie Holmes’ creepy path toward zombie bridedom” of “how truly strange Scientology is,” Michael Crowley… Read more »
“To understand how we got here, you have to cast your mind back long before July 7, 2005, or even September 11, 2001, to February 14, 1989,” says British writer… Read more »
Numerous recent reports have noted the rise in Christian fiction, often with a certain tone of alarm. “But there’s no mystery to the popularity of Christian fiction,” writes Alex Good… Read more »
In England, “A Sikh couple had to abandon their wedding when a group of protesters raided the Slough hotel where the event was being held and seized a holy book,”… Read more »
Readers of the New York Times no doubt noticed the stunning saturation coverage of a New York appearance by Billy Graham that appeared in the newspaper for most of the… Read more »
“From Christian chick lit to frank discussions of sexuality and how to avoid temptation, the shelves of both Christian bookstores and secular chains offer a variety of wholesome reading that… Read more »
Officials at Westminster Abbey have issued information sheets to assist their tour guides in correcting “factual errors” in The Da Vinci Code, according to a Press Association report in the… Read more »
In November, Verso Books will publish Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden, edited and introduced by Bruce Lawrence, a Duke University Professor of Religion (and a… Read more »
The library that is considered the “highest seat of learning in the Sunni Muslim world” — Egypt’s massive Al-Azhar Library in Cairo — “has launched a long-awaited Web site featuring… Read more »
In an essay discussing the presence of the Christian myth in the new Star Wars film, radical Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek offers his own interpretation of Dan Brown’s The Da… Read more »