I don’t often recirculate comments from others here, but sometimes I make an exception, and I'm doing do so for this interview with Noam...

Imagine that a shark has a fish literally inside its jaws, but cannot bite down. Prayer is like that. It is like a “toxin” that makes you...

I've built up several cheesy but memorable “mottos” for the academic study of religion, to use in teaching. The focus today is “this...

NOTE: I am publishing tomorrow, in October 2024, a note to link back to this article which has continuing relevance even though it first...

…Or… if you want to watch, or already did—if you are into that sort of thing—let’s compare notes. The production was fascinating in...

People have asked me about the news du jour —that the flagship evangelical magazine Christianity Today (CT) called for impeaching Mr....