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November 03, 2011 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Baptist film on immigration seeks to get churches talking, helping
Robert Parham, executive director of the Nashville-based Baptist Center for Ethics, doesn’t know how to solve the nation’s immigration crisis. But he knows what he believes.
October 27, 2011 - The Huffington Post
Huff. Post: Romney, Dawkins, and the 6th Article of the Constitution
Richard Dawkins was invited on September 30 to Miami by the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences. Dawkins, one of the most renowned evolutionary biologists in the world, and one of the most active science preachers of modern times, came to present The Magic of Reality, his most recent book (which also comes in a beautiful iPad version).
October 26, 2011 - Religion News Service
RNS: Activists bemoan low priority given to religious freedom
Religious freedom advocates on Wednesday (Oct. 26) lamented America’s failure to protect the faithful abroad, saying things have gotten worse, not better, since the issue first gained traction more than a decade ago
October 25, 2011 - Catholic Online
Catholic Online: 'Liberal' Muslims support 'gay rights' movement?
Born in Malaysia, the 49-year-old singer-songwriter and organization cofounder said, "the community we are building is very different from most of the mosques you would walk into.
October 24, 2011 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Church's pride in Cain outweighs differences
Where it matters most — down in the soul — Herman Cain is one of them. Always will be.
October 21, 2011 - Time
Time: The de facto religious test in presidential politics
Officially, the United States has no religious test for elected officials.
October 20, 2011 - The Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle: Faith and science: Can we find common ground?
Faith and science. For centuries, the two domains have intersected, diverged, conflicted and co-existed.
October 19, 2011 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Mitt Romney takes on Mormon ‘cult’ comments and the religious test for office
It was only a few seconds, but at Tuesday night’s debate, Republican presidential hopeful (and Mormon) Mitt Romney gave some of his most extensive religious comments yet of the 2012 presidential campaign, saying, “That idea that we should choose people based on their religion is the one that I find to be most troubling.”
October 19, 2011 - Catholic Culture
Catholic Culture: Needed: a sense of urgency about religious freedom in US foreign policy
Not a single Christian church remains standing in Afghanistan.
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 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 09, 2011 - The Heritage Foundation
Heritage Foundation: Religious freedom and a pastor in Iran
The world recognized an international symbol of the hunger for political freedom in the summer of 2009 when a young Iranian woman, Neda Agha-Soltan, was fatally shot during the Tehran uprising.
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 29, 2011 - The Korea Times
Korea Times: Opinion: Religious persecution on the rise
History was supposed to have ended.
September 27, 2011 - Agence France-Presse
AFP: Christians top target of abuse: Vatican
Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican's foreign minister told the UN summit on Tuesday.
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.
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