Religion Dispatches
Legendary underground comics artist R. Crumb has produced a surprisingly reverent Book of Genesis. For real grotesquerie, you need to look back to the Bible of Basil Wolverton, an evangelical illustrator whose work dwelt on the bizarre and violent.
Read MoreA primetime sci-fi soap opera takes on issues of secular vs. spiritual—in space.
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A group named Anonymous has been using electronic sabotage and staging street demonstrations against Scientology in what may be a first—an unaffiliated, secular group protesting an entire religion.
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On the final day of the Cornerstone Christian Music Festival our reporter locates the zine of “Punk Monks.”
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From sweet and soulful to Christian death metal, RD’s reporter on the scene talks about the music.
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A video diary from an evangelical music and culture festival near Bushnell, Illinois.
Read MoreA Church of Jedi attack spawns numerous interviews; despite thinly-veiled mockery, the coverage offers an unprecedented legitimacy, allowing them to subvert traditional media for their own ends.
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A recent statement by a Vatican astronomer opens a theological can of worms…
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The film adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in the midst of Vatican II, pits the age-old male hierarchy against the secrecy of the recent molestation scandals. And the winner is…
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Comic about an evangelical teen suffers from some critical flaws…
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