The Earthquake Thunder Fish, Yosuke Ueno Since its “opening” in 1854 by U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry, Japan often has been defined in the West by a single, simple image. Sometimes that image has been one of exotic, romantic tradition … More →

March 18, 2011

Three expert movie-watchers discuss the moral, ethical, religious, and spiritual themes they saw in some of this year’s Oscar nominees. More →

February 25, 2011

Two religious conservatives offer their views on political involvement, Glenn Beck, evangelical Christianity, and more. More →

October 8, 2010

How have religion in general and the King James Bible in particular figured in America’s literary history? More →

May 11, 2010

Watch excerpts from Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’s recent remarks at Trinity Church Wall Street on building an ethical economy. Video courtesy of of Trinity Wall Street.

February 2, 2010

Read more of Bob Abernethy’s August 31, 2009 interview in Iowa with Marilynne Robinson. She is the author, most recently, of the novels Gilead and Home, and she a member of the faculty at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop: … More →

September 18, 2009

Read more of Lucky Severson’s interview about interracial churches with Michael Emerson, Allyn R. and Gladys M. Cline Professor of Sociology and director of the Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life at Rice University and the author of PEOPLE … More →

July 31, 2009

Read excerpts from Kim Lawton’s interview with Robert Franklin on American Protestantism and culture. More →

May 3, 2002

Part two of our series on the Tibetan Buddhists in exile in India. They’re refugees not only from Chinese oppression in Tibet but also from what the Dalai Lama calls “cultural genocide.” More →

June 11, 1999