BeliefWatch: God Is Green
Have you ever stopped to consider how much it costs to heat
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekBeliefWatch: 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
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekBeliefWatch: 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
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekBeliefWatch: 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,
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekBeliefWatch: 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
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekThe 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
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ReligionBeliefWatch: 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
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekRaiders 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
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ReligionBeliefWatch: 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
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BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, NewsweekSlave Trade
Once there was a Christian, a man from a wealthy family. He had conservative values, and he crusaded his whole life for social justice. In the end, he changed history. His name was William Wilberforce, and in 1807 he finally