I just wrote a story for the Daily Beast about history’s craziest religions. Enjoy.

Maybe the “my year doing such and such” fad has jumped the shark. On this morning’s “Today” show, author Hephzibah Anderson talked about her new book about going a year without sex. Video below:

Jason Jones meets a pastor who teaches mixed martial arts and an evangelist who breaks inanimate objects in the name of Jesus.

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I just wrote an essay for Slate called “Passover Profiteering” about why Passover food is so darn expensive. Here’s the link to the article.

For my latest story for the Huffington Post, I interviewed Penina Taylor about her new book, Coming Full Circle.

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For my latest essay at the Huffington Post, I wrote about what I learned on my 20-city book tour. Read it here.

Here’s my latest article for the Huffington Post: An interview with Gina Welch, the author of In the Land of Believers: An Outsider’s Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church.

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In the new issue of Esquire magazine, disgraced former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich calls himself “blacker than Barack Obama”. Not surprisingly, that caused quite a stir and a quick apology from Blago. What the media hasn’t written much about is the other person Blago compares himself to in that very same article: Mordechai.

In the course of a conversation, he is not only Galileo; he is Teddy Roosevelt and Robin Hood and Bobby Kennedy and Rocky Balboa. And Mordecai of the legend of Purim.

Purim?

“The Book of Esther.”

Purim?

“Yeah. And I’m Mordecai. Falsely accused. I didn’t do those things. This whole story is epic. What helps me get up every morning is, I’m fighting the fight for something much larger than me. I’m fighting for what is at the basis of what our country is supposed to be, a place where you’re presumed innocent, where if in fact you did something wrong, the system plays out in such a way where the truth comes out, not people being forced to lie and being squeezed to lie. If you love your country as I do, this is a fight worth fighting.”

You can read the entire Esquire interview here.