http://dir.salon.com/topics/christianity/?source=rss&aim=christianity en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/15/divorce_and_freedom/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/08/15/divorce_and_freedom/index.html?source=rss I wanted to be the bride but I don't like being the wife. Now I face the toughest decision of my life. By Karl Giberson Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/31/religion_science/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/07/31/religion_science/index.html?source=rss Piercing a Communion wafer with a nail and throwing it in the garbage, as one crusading biologist recently did, does science no favors. By Gary Kamiya Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/05/20/hagee/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/05/20/hagee/index.html?source=rss Why the press gives McCain a pass for consorting with batshit holy men, but condemns Obama to talk-show hell for the same sin. By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/15/creationism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/15/creationism/index.html?source=rss My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit. By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/12/christian_bisexual_husband/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/05/12/christian_bisexual_husband/index.html?source=rss How can I live a good life, now that I've come out to my wife? What if I succumb to temptation? By Sarah Posner Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/03/black_church/index.html?source=rss Black religion expert Jonathan Walton on black liberation theology's roots in slavery, MLK Jr.'s "God damn America moment" and what Jeremiah Wright has in common with Gennifer Flowers. By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/04/christian_camp/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/04/04/christian_camp/index.html?source=rss We're both atheists raised by fundamentalists, and we're afraid they'll be indoctrinated. By Garrison Keillor Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/03/19/easter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2008/03/19/easter/index.html?source=rss Holy Week is a good time to ask: Do we really believe or do we just like to hang out with nice people and listen to organ music? By Charly Wilder Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/03/13/chris_hedges/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/03/13/chris_hedges/index.html?source=rss Foreign correspondent and intellectual provocateur Chris Hedges explains why New Atheists like Christopher Hitchens are as dangerous as Christian fundamentalists. By Vincent Rossmeier Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/02/26/amy_sullivan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/02/26/amy_sullivan/index.html?source=rss According to author Amy Sullivan, liberals don't have to sell their souls to convert Christian Republicans. By Louis Bayard Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/02/25/evangelicals/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2008/02/25/evangelicals/index.html?source=rss Former born-again Christian John Marks journeyed back into the evangelical America he'd left behind and discovered the promise -- and limitations -- of faith. By Laura Miller Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/01/28/secret_societies/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/01/28/secret_societies/index.html?source=rss Step right up, folks, and read the one true guide to Western and Eastern esoteric societies from the Freemasons to the Rosicrucians. Relics, totems and secret handshakes revealed! By Joe Conason Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/01/18/huckabee/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/01/18/huckabee/index.html?source=rss Mike Huckabee's affinity for religious extremism is no secret. But is biblical law at the heart of his presidential vision? By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/01/18/doubt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/01/18/doubt/index.html?source=rss My experience contradicts what I have been taught. I feel guilty and alone. By Christopher Noxon Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/12/22/irving_the_snowchicken/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/12/22/irving_the_snowchicken/index.html?source=rss Forget Christmakkah and Festivus. Our interfaith holiday involves a magical rooster who fills the children's pants with presents. By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/12/20/alone_on_christmas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/12/20/alone_on_christmas/index.html?source=rss Do not pity me: I prefer solitude. By Laura Miller Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/12/19/transcendentalism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/12/19/transcendentalism/index.html?source=rss Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism? By Katharine Mieszkowski Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/11/30/dirt_on_clean/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/11/30/dirt_on_clean/index.html?source=rss The messy history of cleanliness, and why our obsession with dirt may be making us sick. By Joe Conason Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/11/09/giuliani_robertson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2007/11/09/giuliani_robertson/index.html?source=rss Now that Giuliani has embraced Pat Robertson's endorsement, the mayor should have to answer for the preacher's extremism and outright loony talk. By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/25/atheism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/25/atheism/index.html?source=rss I've been lying to my family, my friends and my religious university -- I don't believe in God! I don't! I don't! By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/04/christianity/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/04/christianity/index.html?source=rss I don't believe in God but I want to allay her fears. By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/09/26/unclean/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/09/26/unclean/index.html?source=rss Doesn't everybody shower? Sixty percent of the men I meet on eHarmony say, "I can't stand someone who is not clean." By Laura Miller Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/09/24/stillborn_god/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/09/24/stillborn_god/index.html?source=rss In "The Stillborn God," a history of the separation of church and state, Mark Lilla urges the West to remember the religious fanaticism in its past -- or risk its return. By Cary Tennis Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/09/17/christian_parents/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/09/17/christian_parents/index.html?source=rss Do they actually believe my boyfriend and I aren't having sex -- can't they see I'm an adult? By Elizabeth Svoboda Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/09/06/rosin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/09/06/rosin/index.html?source=rss Patrick Henry College grooms fundamentalist kids to be America's future leaders. A new book looks at how these elite students cope with the pressure to bridge secular and religious worlds.