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In the past few years journalists have developed a strain of religion reportage that centers on a stunt, one patterned after George Plimpton’s turn as a major-league pitcher or maybe John Howard Griffin’s “Black Like Me.” The latest version, by Brown University senior Kevin Roose, follows the gag faithfully. As a junior at Brown University,…

The economy is tanking. The bailed-out companies are sending seven figure bonuses to their key managers. The banks are barely making it. The public is nervous. How does a President respond? Does he start a train tour? Does he take the bus route to the small towns? Does he camp out in the White House?…

As the death of his career continues, Ted Haggard just keeps moving toward the light–the television light. Since he admitted to homosexual acts and stepped down as pastor of a Colorado megachurch and as president of the National Association of Evangelicals, Haggard has appeared in a HBO documentary and with his wife Gayle on “Oprah.”…

By the end of my first time reading through the YA novel “The God Box” by Alex Sanchez (a writer colleague of mine) I was sobbing. Not only is it a beautiful story of two boys who fall in love, but it takes place at a Christian prep school, where Christianity’s relationship (and rejection) of…
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