The top ten. (OK—make that twelve.)

Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the rapture of distress.

A new book by a leading Christian feminist scholar inadvertently reveals the flawed assumptions underlying much talk about "flexibility" in gender roles.

Dave Eggers: The portrait of an artist as a … what?

A report from Toronto, where scholars of religion are holding their annual meeting.

How we became hedonists.

A Darwinian debate continues.

A Darwinian debate.

A game that's more than a game.

America's foist family as a tool for evangelism.

Helping children to become intimately familiar with Scripture.

Guilty as charged?

Is this us?

The rise and fall and rise and fall and rise of the VW Beetle.

A graduate of Murree Christian School in Pakistan, the site of a deadly assault by Islamic terrorists in August, reflects on his growing-up years, on what has changed in the interim, and on the beleaguered Christian community in Pakistan.

Shouldn't the paper of record be able to move beyond Square One?

Bedside reading for the anniversary of 9/11.

"Imitate Japan." "No, don't imitate Japan." Time out

From Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The invasion that never was.

Historian Sean Wilentz's misguided attack on Justice Antonin Scalia.