James Poulos continues an exchange with Andrew Sullivan.

Anthony Gottlieb makes a connection between religious people and fertility in Intelligent Life.

John Patrick Shanley, director of the movie and playwright of Doubt, conducted an interview with Christianity Today, in which he discussed faith and his relationship with the Catholic Church.

Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration has been controversial, to say the least. People of all religious and political persuasions have voiced opinions since the announcement, and more commentary appears every day.

Most people assume that the December holiday season is all about the big three: Christmas, Channukah, and Kwanzaa, all of which involve bright lights and the potential for burns, both emotional and physical. The first problem here is that Kwanzaa is, in fact, not a religious holiday at all. And, acccording to the Foundation for Pluralism, December this year marks a festive season for Muslims, Buddhists, Wiccans, Jews, Hindus, Zoroastrians, and all of your run-of-the-mill pagans and Christians. Atheists have also gotten involved, as we have already covered, getting media coverage and a ton of publicity for their December shenanigans. Below we round up some of the religious aspects of the day, as well as some truly entertaining holiday cheer.

In response to the violence between Muslims and Christians that took place is northern Nigeria last week, The Nigerian Daily Sun ran two op-eds on the entho-religious roots of this violence. Chris Ngwodo writes the first of these.

Five contributing editors of The Revealer round up some of 2008's most interesting texts.