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   The Wheel in James Dobson's Head Keeps on Turning Sharlet: The liberal blogosphere will soon be a-twitter over James Dobson's announcement that he's reconsidering his once absolutist opposition to McCain. Evidence, say Dobson's and McCain's critics, of the Christian Right's hypocrisy. But I've long maintained that Dobson, despite his... [ Continue reading: ] Keep on Rockin' in the Islamic World Who doesn't want to read Heavy Metal Islam, a new book by UC Irvine scholar Mark LeVine on rock and revolution in the Middle East? If you don't, you shouldn't be reading this blog... [ Continue reading: ]  What We Think We See in Iraq Artist Karina Aguilera Skvirsky brings the war home by photographing reenactments of Iraqis at prayer or in reflection in American "backyards," ordinary settings which reveal to us the depth of the grief that photojournalism portrays as part of a naturalized landscape of suffering... [ Continue reading: ]  Guns n' God Every now and then, two great faiths converge. Such meetings transcend the ecumenical impulse; indeed, they may lead to new religions. That nearly occurred at Windsor Hill Baptist in Oklahoma City. The church decided to promote a special youth weekend... [ Continue reading: ]  Prepare for the Awesoming! Awesomed By Comics isn't, technically, about religion. It's about comics. Totally awesome comics. Not so much the kind of graphic novels that get reviewed in The New York Times or the elegant "funnies" serialized for yuppies in the Times Magazine as the pulps: Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, Hulk (and Hulkling), Avengers and New Avengers and Young Avengers and old Crusaders. The comics that resist that ol' disenchantment of the world, the trash-lit underside of secularism, chronicles of de facto clergy in capes, matters of ultimate concern addressed with super strength, power blasts, and lots of explanatory dialogue... [ Continue reading: ] Church v. State, Immigration Edition "The beacon of the Catholic church to immigrants has rarely shown more brilliantly" than in Postville, Iowa, writes Samuel G. Freedman in The New York Times. Freedman, one of the great religion writers at work, is referring to a tiny... [ Continue reading: ]  |