Citing two recent examples of unusually attentive and nuanced reporting on religion, Nick Street ponders the future of the field…
Religion journalism after Steinfels
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Hollywood’s religion of pantheism
In the New York Times, columnist Ross Douthat describes the new movie Avatar as an example of pantheism, "a faith…
Thomas Friedman taken to task
At the Huffington Post John O. Voll and John Esposito rebut in no uncertain terms Thomas L. Friedman's most recent…
An Islamic civil war?
In his op-ed piece in yesterday's New York Times, Thomas Friedman made a number of astute remarks about the current…
Obama, Christian realism, and Just War theory
A round-up of some of the recent commentary on President Obama and the ethics of war, following the invocation of…
The new gurus
In last week’s New York Times Sunday Styles section, Allen Salkin reported on the emergence of a “new wave” of…
The Godless Delusion
“For Taylor,” writes John Patrick Diggins in The New York Times Book Review, “belief is not what science finds but…