A former resident returns to find that it is still stony ground for the Gospel

A provocative collection of essays for the black silent majority.

Can you say Christian and mathematics in the same sentence?

The mixed record of Catholic social thought

Stories from the far-flung frontiers of the British Empire, 1600-1850, challenge our preconceptions

A conversation with novelist Richard Dooling

A new format for this column

Christianity and Native American religion in early America.

Christopher Hitchens and Christopher Caldwell collaborate on a collection of political writing. Has the millennium arrived unnoticed?

Dave Eggers: The portrait of an artist as a—what?

A new book by a leading Christian feminist scholar inadvertently reveals the flawed assumptions underlying much talk about flexibility in gender roles

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the rapture of distress

The top ten. (OK-make that twelve.)

A Darwinian debate

A Darwinian debate continues.

How we became hedonists

A report from Toronto, where scholars of religion are holding their annual meeting

Helping children to become intimately familiar with Scripture

America's foist family as a tool for evangelism