Has popular novelist Anne Rice abandoned her faith? CNN's religion blog presents the following summary of Anne Rice's recent Facebook posts regarding her faith: Legendary author Anne Rice has announced that she’s quitting Christianity. The “Interview with a Vampire” author, who wrote a book about her spirituality titled "Called Out of Darkness:...

Mosab Yousef's book, Son of Hamas, is destined to create controversy. It's already doing so since its recent release, attracting the attention of major media all over the world. Yousef  recently gave interviews with diverse news outlets such as BBC News, Wall Street Journal, and even men's magazine GQ. Mosab is the son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef,...

(Thanks goes to Rusty Wright and Meg Korpi for this article) The headline in The Times of London grabs your attention: “As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God” The tagline is even more pointed: “Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa's biggest problem - the crushing passivity of the people's mindset.” What...

Although generating much less controversy (and interest in general) than Dan Brown's previous book-to-movie adaptation, The Da Vinci Code, has nevertheless again raised the often socially taboo topics of religion and faith for public discussion. The latest story Angels & Demons, starring Tom Hanks as the protagonist Robert Langdon, focuses...