BeliefWatch: First Cut
Poor “Misha.” Caught in a terrible custody war, this 12-year-old boy from Washington state has become a cause c
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BeliefWatch: God Is Green
Have you ever stopped to consider how much it costs to heat
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BeliefWatch: Sweet Jesus
Last Monday, as Christians around the globe prepared for Holy Week and Easter, the Italian-American artist Cosimo Cavallaro was leading a car chase through the streets of New York City. With reporters trailing close behind, Cavallaro drove a refrigerated truck through narrow, clogged streets until he finally lost his pursuers and came to rest at
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BeliefWatch: Marriage
Unlike Judaism, Islam is passed down through the father. The Qur’an even grants a Muslim man permission to marry a Jewish or Christian woman, so long as she is chaste. “A believing maid is better than an idolatrous woman,” the holy text says. Thus it was for centuries: Muslim men married other women of the
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BeliefWatch: GodTube
What would Jesus download? One of the hottest sites on the Internet is GodTube.com, the Christian answer to YouTube. It’s a goofy, fascinating window into the world of Christian youth. There’s a clip of Ray Comfort, the popular evangelical preacher, demonstrating the perfection of God’s creation with an actual banana. It’s hard
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BeliefWatch: Tree Hugger
What has Rich Cizik done to make Jim Dobson so mad? Cizik has, for 26 years, been the Washington-based lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals, a job one would hardly call high profile. Over the past year, though, he has become something of a celebrity: the evangelical leader who speaks for the cause of
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The Gospel of Prothero
Steve Prothero is the kind of professor who makes you want to go back to college. During an hour lecture of his Boston University course “Death and Immortality,” 200 students sat rapt last week as his train of thought led him from the Docetics (early Christians who believed that Jesus was all-God, not flesh), to
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BeliefWatch: Good Word
On the day of John F. Kennedy’s funeral, Robert Kennedy wrote his eldest child, who was 12, a short note: “Dear Kathleen,” it said, “you seemed to understand that Jack died and was buried today. As the oldest of the Kennedy grandchildren
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Raiders of the Lost Tomb
In Jerusalem, that ancient and holy city, people’s houses are built on bones. For thousands of years, hundreds of generations of Jews, Muslims and Christians have been laid to rest in its rocky soil. Tova Bracha has always known that the tiny, rose-bordered concrete plot next to her apartment building covers an ancient Jewish burial
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BeliefWatch: Reporter
In the aftermath of 9/11, when the offices of The Wall Street Journal were temporarily moved from Ground Zero to SoHo, a young journalist sat at his desk and edited one story after another about the Muslim world abroad. Jihad this, fatwah that, Sunni, Shia, how do you spell hijab? “It occurred to me that
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