Faith

Salon God, He's moody

In an interview with something to offend everyone, Robert Wright explains why religion has given us a fickle deity
By Steve Paulson Jun 24, 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

  • Will gay marriage still work as a Republican wedge issue?

    Salon's experts think the issue that helped George Bush win reelection in 2004 may have lost its electoral magic. But look for it to resurface in the 2012 GOP primaries.
    By Thomas Schaller April 20, 2009

  • Jane Goodall's animal planet

    In a surprising interview, the famous primatologist talks about her mystical experiences in the jungle and her ever-increasing passion for animal rights and cleaning up the "horrendous mess" of our environment.
    By Steve Paulson April 14, 2009

  • Jesus is just alright with him

    To the author of "Jesus Interrupted," the man from Galilee was a radical Jewish prophet, not God. But in an interview, Bart Ehrman says history doesn't have to undermine Christian faith.
    By Gary Kamiya April 3, 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

  • You are not your brain

    We have become too reductive in understanding ourselves, argues philosopher Alva Noe. Our thoughts and desires are shaped by more than neurons firing inside our heads.
    By Gordy Slack March 25, 2009

  • God enough

    We should see the ceaseless creativity of nature as sacred, argues biologist Stuart Kauffman, despite what Richard Dawkins might say.
    By Steve Paulson November 19, 2008

  • Proposition 8 made me quit the Mormon church

    I have been a Mormon my whole life. But after the church's campaign of hatred to ban gay marriage, I finally renounced my membership.
    By Jodi Mardesich November 13, 2008

  • No time to cry wolf

    It's right to be afraid of Sarah Palin and the outcome of the election. But still, we have to have faith.
    By Anne Lamott October 14, 2008

  • Religion is poetry

    The beauties of religion need to be saved from both the true believers and the trendy atheists, argues compelling religious scholar James Carse.
    By Steve Paulson July 21, 2008

  • Can't Darwin and God get along?

    Of course they can, argues physicist and theologian Karl Giberson, if only many believers were more sophisticated and atheists less dogmatic.
    By Vincent Rossmeier July 1, 2008

  • Are you going to hell?

    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 Louis Bayard February 25, 2008

  • I'm a brilliant scientist and I fear for the world's fate

    I wish I could have faith -- at least for my daughter's sake if not for mine.
    By Cary Tennis January 24, 2008

  • The accidental heretic

    I'm a devoted Catholic and a huge Philip Pullman fan. Can a church that condemns him still embrace someone like me?
    By Donna Freitas December 7, 2007

  • My Christian daughter says I'm going to hell

    I don't believe in God but I want to allay her fears.
    By Cary Tennis October 4, 2007

  • Divine politics

    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 Laura Miller September 24, 2007

  • The Mormons are coming

    Long before Mitt Romney and "Big Love," Mormons were demonized as polygamists, prudes and vampires. But Mormonism just may be the first major world faith since Islam.
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 20, 2007

  • I feed the poor but eat with the rich

    We do our Christian charity and then drink mimosas at a fancy hotel up the street. And that just seems so wrong!
    By Cary Tennis August 21, 2007

  • Is atheism dead?

    My belief in no God, which has sustained me since high school, is starting to feel shaky.
    By Cary Tennis July 12, 2007

  • Something to believe in

    For years, I struggled to connect to my father's God. But this Easter I'm reminding myself that Jesus himself was a doubter.
    By Darcey Steinke April 7, 2007

  • Anne Lamott's amazing grace

    The former Salon columnist talks straight about being attacked by readers, why she's not crazy about Hillary, her wonderful week with Molly Ivins, and what a drag it is getting old.
    By Joan Walsh March 21, 2007

  • Oprah's ugly secret

    By continuing to hawk "The Secret," a mishmash of offensive self-help cliches, Oprah Winfrey is squandering her goodwill and influence, and preaching to the world that mammon is queen.
    By Peter Birkenhead March 5, 2007

  • Finding my religion

    Fifteen years ago, I converted from Catholicism to Islam. My mother still doesn't understand my choice, but there's not a day that I regret it.
    By Patricia Dunn December 18, 2006
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