Christianity

Kirk Cameron monkeys with Darwin Kirk Cameron monkeys with Darwin

The sitcom star and super-Christian is giving away a new version of "On the Origin of Species," and it's got Nazis
By Mary Elizabeth Williams Sep 24, 2009

  • Wanted: Freedom from religion

    The theocratic repression in Iran is a reminder that there can be no freedom without secular government
    By Michael Lind June 23, 2009

  • It's time for Obama to listen to his mama

    The president has promised to increase religion's influence on policymaking. He should honor the late Ann Dunham by strengthening the wall between church and state instead.
    By Frances Kissling May 10, 2009

  • Those ignorant atheists

    In this witty book, Terry Eagleton argues that Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and their ilk are shockingly ill-informed about the Christian faith.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 28, 2009

  • I'm an African-American agnostic in a sea of Baptist believers

    Every Sunday I sit in the pew, full of doubt, next to my conservative Christian wife.
    By Cary Tennis April 21, 2009

  • The Wingnut explains why conservatives fear gay marriage

    From his undisclosed location, our undercover conservative columnist answers one of your most pressing questions: Do right-wingers really think that legalizing gay marriage will destroy our social fabric?
    By Glenallen Walken April 20, 2009

  • The gay marriage apocalypse is coming!

    At last, conservative Christians find the long-sought connection between same-sex weddings and mass murder.
    By Abigail Kramer April 14, 2009

  • The great right-wing freak-out

    Symptoms of the conservative crack-up were on full display after President Obama's trip abroad. Bill Kristol, take a bow.
    By Juan Cole April 13, 2009

  • Eat your saints, purge your demons

    Why do people worship religious relics, and why is the number of trainee exorcists rising? Two new books suggest that our desire to believe in magical forces remains irresistible.
    By Laura Miller March 27, 2009

  • What would Jesus do on spring break?

    In the middle of Daytona's annual season of sin, I went undercover with a group of evangelical Christians trying to convert drunk partygoers. God help me.
    By Kevin Roose March 18, 2009

  • The case against thrift

    The downturn is giving us new excuses for moral flagellation. But saving money won't save your soul.
    By Judith Levine February 25, 2009

  • How would Lincoln vote today?

    Everyone, from President Obama to the GOP, wants a piece of Honest Abe on his bicentennial. Here's where Abraham Lincoln really stood on the issues.
    By Michael Lind February 12, 2009

  • How the hell did Rick Warren get inauguration tickets?

    Barack Obama knows liberals are upset he picked the conservative evangelical preacher to pray at the inauguration. And he doesn't care.
    By Mike Madden December 19, 2008

  • I'm fighting a religious war with my mother-in-law

    I'm a Unitarian Universalist and she's a fundamentalist: Can this kinship be saved?
    By Cary Tennis November 10, 2008

  • A big gay Mormon wedding

    The Church of Latter-day Saints has pumped millions into Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage. But for one devout family, the politics are personal.
    By Jeanne Carstensen October 31, 2008

  • What would Jesus do, about the bailout?

    A Christian news organization reports about the danger that illegal immigrants might get mortgage relief from the Paulson plan
    By Andrew Leonard October 3, 2008

  • The Word from Wasilla

    Sarah Palin's Pentecostal supporters in Alaska hail her debate performance and her rise to the national stage as the work of God.
    By Deirdre English and Gail Sheehy October 3, 2008

  • Bill Maher vs. the "talking snake"

    The HBO host and comedian talks about "Religulous," his onslaught against the religious idiocy that threatens to deliver America to Sarah Palin and her fellow "space god" worshipers.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 2, 2008

  • A call to arms

    How to handle the fury brought on by this election? Register voters, hit the streets, pray. Stop talking about her. Talk about Obama.
    By Anne Lamott September 16, 2008

  • My marriage was a mistake

    I wanted to be the bride but I don't like being the wife. Now I face the toughest decision of my life.
    By Cary Tennis August 15, 2008

  • What's wrong with science as religion

    Piercing a Communion wafer with a nail and throwing it in the garbage, as one crusading biologist recently did, does science no favors.
    By Karl Giberson July 31, 2008
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