Faith

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  • 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

  • Booting the anti-Bush heathens

    A North Carolina pastor redefines his faith-based community.
    By Mark Follman May 6, 2005

  • Life of the Party

    Jim Wallis, editor of Sojourners, tells Democrats how they can attract moderate religious voters: Be authentic and don't be afraid to use the G-word.
    By Tim Grieve May 2, 2005

  • God doesn't take sides

    How do I reconcile my faith with that of the spiritual hysterics in the White House? Easy. I don't even try.
    By Anne Lamott April 27, 2005

  • "You can't run the world on faith"

    Some Reagan conservatives decry Bush's "Messianic" approach and preference for dogma over evidence.
    By James K. Galbraith October 18, 2004

  • Flashes of hope in the darkest hour

    My son, Sam, never knew his dad. One day he decided he wanted to meet him. Here's what happened.
    By Anne Lamott December 20, 2002

  • Faith in the baby

    They told me he was fine. I don't know that I ever believed them.
    By Kristin Ohlson April 5, 2001

  • Views from the pews

    If church is theater, then where are the reviews? This week, the Baptists lose it at the altar, and the Unitarians try finding it through tweedy discussion.
    By Chris Colin November 22, 2000

  • Deepak Chopra

    Everyday Immortality
    By Deepak Chopra October 5, 2000

  • Don't call me Mrs.

    When the local Catholics couldn't face my surname, I went church shopping.
    By Donna Cornachio February 23, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    My Mom caught me reading Playboy -- and thought I was gay! Plus: Did Hildegard of Bingen really commune with God -- or just need aspirin? Mixed reactions to Hillary's New York adventure.
    Letters to the editor January 10, 2000

  • Are you there, God?

    The Templeton Foundation invests millions so scientists might prove that faith works. But their answers aren't what Sir John Templeton wants to hear.
    By Lawrence Osborne December 24, 1999

  • The day I became a Muslim

    At an Indian mosque on a blazing summer afternoon, a moment that I had only dreamed of came true.
    By Zachary Karabell December 11, 1999

  • Making bombs in Zanzibar

    An enigmatic encounter with a would-be African terrorist leaves an expatriate wondering about truth and faith.
    By Frank Bures December 8, 1999

  • "Would God forgive Lenin?"

    In a lonely tower above the mean streets of Krasnoyarsk, a wanderer encounters the fervent heart of Russia's abiding faith.
    By Jeffrey Tayler December 1, 1999

  • "Dogma"

    Kevin Smith's comic-book vision of church doctrine is a celebratory leap of faith.
    By Charles Taylor November 12, 1999

  • Faith healing

    Can prayer do anything more than make you feel better?
    By Jon Bowen November 3, 1999

  • Wake up to Furrow's wake-up call

    When my son was young, we went to the JCC to learn Jewish songs, finger-paint and be part of a community -- one that included Jews, Catholics and agnostics too.
    By Mona Gable August 14, 1999

  • Y'all take care now

    30,000 feet above Jackson, Miss., I came to believe it was time to start a novel.
    By Anne Lamott July 22, 1999

  • That one ridiculous palm

    In the first of five excerpts from her new book, "Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith," Anne Lamott recalls her atheist upbringing and the allure of the religion of her Catholic friends.
    By Anne Lamott January 15, 1999

  • Not finding God in Rome

    At Christmas in the Eternal City, a seeker of truth discovers that sometimes the answer you don't get is the one you need. Zachary Karabell journeys to Rome at Christmas in a quest to find God -- and receives an unexpected reward.
    By Zachary Karabell December 23, 1998

  • My Advent adventure

    It's not that she doesn't have a lot of faith that God will heal us. It's just that she also has a lot of mental problems. And she wants to fix them now.
    By Anne Lamott December 10, 1998

  • Traveling mercies

    When everything in your life goes wrong at once, something big and lovely is about to get born.
    By Anne Lamott December 18, 1997
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