At Religion Dispatches, Pauline Hope Cheong writes about the online media rituals surrounding the mourning of Michael Jackson.
Immortalizing Michael Jackson through public ritual
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Twitter at temple, Facebook at Friday services
Paul Vitello writes in the New York Times about the more and more frequent intrusion of technology into religious services…
Bill Moyers with Cornel West, Serene Jones and Gary Dorrien
On his show, Bill Moyers speaks with Cornel West, Serene Jones, and Gary Dorrien to get "a fresh take on…
Arts and crafts and atheism: Richard Dawkins goes to camp
Richard Dawkins is helping to subsidize a summer camp that will teach children the fundamentals of atheism.
Pakistan takes on Islamism
At the LA Times, Ahmed Rashid discusses Pakistan's decision to seriously address the Taliban threat.
Investigating nuns in America
Laurie Goodstein writes in the New York Times about new Vatican investigations of American nuns, "a development that has startled…
Extremism, conspiracy theories, and faith
At Fresh Air on NPR, Chip Berlet discusses how "the murders of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller and Holocaust Museum…
A call to Christianize the debate over health care
At Progressive Revival, Paul Raushenbush calls for the Christianization of the health care debate.
Teaching science to Buddhist monks
At Religion Dispatches, Arri Eisen writes about his experience creating and teaching a science course, requested by the Dalai Lama…
Defining “faith”
This weekend the New York Times blog, Schott's Vocab, solicited definitions of faith.