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October 19, 2011 - The Jewish Week
Jewish Week: Examining America's religious landscape
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey of the American Religious Landscape is more than three years old and, because of its size and cost, won't be updated for another two years, but it remains an important reference source and worth taking a look at.
October 18, 2011 - ABC News
ABC News: Is the Tea Party a Religious Movement? ‘Anthem’ Invokes God, Judgment Day
If there’s an anthem for the Tea Party, it’s Krista Branch’s song “I am America,” her fans say.
October 17, 2011 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Nonbelievers striving for humanist connections
On a recent Sunday, as millions of Americans met to celebrate their belief in God, 18 people met in Harvard Square to celebrate their lack of religious conviction.
October 14, 2011 - CNN
CNN: Pray for the President? Yes thou shalt
Republican presidential contender Rick Perry recently urged social conservatives to pray for President Barack Obama.
October 11, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: The cult of anti-Mormonism
Here's some advice for Republican candidates appearing at Tuesday's presidential debate at Dartmouth College.
October 07, 2011 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: Naperville not putting out welcome mat for Islamic religious center
For years, HOPE United Church of Christ advertised on its front lawn plans to build a church on 14 acres it owned just southwest of Naperville, and the minister there says he never heard so much as a peep of displeasure.
October 06, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: An Interview with David Masci About the Ministerial Exception
AP Radio Religion Editor Steve Coleman talks to Senior Researcher David Masci about a Supreme Court case involving a legal doctrine known as the "ministerial exception."
October 04, 2011 - The Christian Post
Christian Post: Joel Osteen on CNN: I Could Vote for a Muslim or Jewish President
Joel Osteen offers a strong statement of support for the Israeli people in an interview with CNN's Pierce Morgan Tuesday night, in which the Lakewood Church pastor also discusses whether he would vote for a Jewish or Muslim presidential candidate.
October 01, 2011 - First Things
First Things: Whither marriage?

Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral or cultural differences between homosexual couples and heterosexual couples, they presume, and therefore limiting marriage to heterosexual couples amounts to discrimination.

October 01, 2011 - The Christian Post
Christian Post: Supreme Court to hear case on church authority, hiring rights
One of the most important religious cases disputed in years, involving the separation of church and state, will soon come before the U.S. Supreme Court.
September 30, 2011 - The Muslim News
Muslim News: USA: American Muslims seeking integration are met with discrimination
In a survey conducted earlier this year, a large majority of Muslims demonstrated their affiliation with the American way of life.
September 27, 2011 - The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Bee: Davis' little blue mosque built with community support
They call it the little mosque that could.
September 26, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Opinion: Millennial Generation challenges religion in America
While most religions believe their doctrines and practices to be eternal verities, all denominations, like other institutions, must continually enlist and renew the commitment of each new generation if they are to survive and carry on their work.
September 22, 2011 - Catholic Culture
Catholic Culture: Supreme Court case could affect suits against Church for discimination
A case pending before the US Supreme Court could produce an important new precedent regarding the right of religious groups to set standards for their ministers and other employees.
September 22, 2011 - Salon
Salon: How Rick Perry courts the Zionist vote
At a press conference in New York on Tuesday billed "pro-Israel," Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry was flanked by Orthodox Jewish leaders.
September 21, 2011 - The Huffington Post
Huffington Post: Surveying U.S. and French Muslims
The results of two interesting surveys were released recently: one by the Pew Research Center on U.S. Muslims' lives and attitudes and one by IFOP (the leading French market research and opinion poll institute) on French Muslims and the evolution of their socio-religious attitudes over the past two decades.
September 21, 2011 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In GOP race, public prayers seem more political than personal
Among the Republican candidates running for president in 2012, there’s been a whole lot of praying in public.
September 19, 2011 - Council on Foreign Relations
CFR: Muslims in the United States

Since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror abroad and domestic terror incidents involving U.S. and immigrant Muslims have focused attention on Islam in the United States.

September 16, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Converts vs. 'Cradle Catholics'
Do converts to the faith make better evangelists than "cradle Catholics"? Pope Benedict XVI seems to think so.
September 15, 2011 - Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera: Arabs and Muslims carve a place in the U.S.
"USA! USA!" chanted the mob of hundreds as it tried to march towards Bridgeview's Mosque Foundation just southwest of Chicago.
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