This U.K.-based "magazine of Christian unrest" eschews cynicism in favor of gentler prodding from an orthodox vantage. Popular features include Signs and Blunders, Fruitcake Zone, and Mystery Worshipper, in which anonymous reviewers attend services around the world, reporting on sermon length, pew comfort, and coffee temperature.
Lives up to its billing as "holy mischief in an age of fast faith." Both subversive and edifying, this Canada-based site offers voices from opposing beliefs to keep it fresh and unpredictable. They recently held a sermons-you'll-never-hear-in-church contest, calling for "words that are too hot, too happy, too whatever for the church to handle - yet still need to be said."
A smart review of religion in the news that winks as it scolds the press for getting religion wrong. Demands better coverage of faith - sharper thinking, thicker description. Mantra: "Belief matters, whether or not you believe." Editor Jeff Sharlet writes that he ...
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