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March 10, 2011 - The Huffington Post
Huff. Post: Jury out on religion and the death penalty
On Ash Wednesday, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law abolishing the death penalty in his state, adding the Land of Lincoln to the growing list of 16 states where capital punishment is no longer an option.
March 10, 2011 - The Commercial Appeal
Commercial Appeal: Memphis man testifies his son was 'brainwashed' by Islamic radicals
Memphian Melvin Bledsoe spoke to the nation Thursday, telling a congressional panel and an overflow hearing room that Islamic "hunters" brainwashed his son, Carlos, who went on to kill a military recruiter in Little Rock, and wounded another.
March 10, 2011 - CNN
CNN: Emotions fly at controversial hearing on Muslim Americans
A controversial congressional hearing Thursday on the radicalization of Muslim Americans touched on sensitive questions involving terrorism and tolerance a decade after the 9/11 attacks.
March 10, 2011 - The Christian Century
Christian Century: A win for death penalty opponents
On Ash Wednesday, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a law abolishing the death penalty in his state, making the Land of Lincoln the 16th state where capital punishment is no longer an option.
March 07, 2011 - Austin American-Statesman
Austin-American Statesman: Sonogram vote shows social issues aren't fading
Pundits have often billed Republicans' national trouncing of Democrats in November as a triumph for fiscal conservatism, and in many ways it was.
March 04, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Opinion: Americans don't want a truce on social issues
Indiana governor and likely Republican presidential candidate Mitch Daniels has suggested that Americans call a "truce" on divisive social issues until our precarious financial house is back in order.
February 25, 2011 - The Atlantic
Atlantic: The Tea Party's religious inspiration
If American politics were a TV show, it would by now have jumped the shark.
February 24, 2011 - The Huffington Post
Huff. Post: Religion news coverage doubled, focused on Islam controversies in 2010
Islam dominated religion news coverage in 2010, a year that also saw religion reporting double to 2 percent of all news, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
February 23, 2011 - CNN
CNN: Tea Party support correlates to religious affiliation, survey finds
The Tea Party hardly claims to be a religious movement - it mostly advocates for smaller government and lower taxes - but feelings about the movement correlate to affiliation with certain religious groups, according to new survey data from the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life.
February 16, 2011 - The Gilroy Dispatch
Gilroy Dispatch: Religions cooperate in fighting climate change
In chapter one of Genesis - a book held sacred by Judaism, Christianity and Islam - God gives Adam and Eve "dominion" over all the animals and plants upon the earth.
February 12, 2011 - The Press-Enterprise
Riverside Press-Enterprise: Theological dividing lines
For years, debates over homosexuality have dominated headlines on divisions within mainline Protestantism.
February 10, 2011 - The Epoch Times
Epoch Times: Religion as politics in war-torn Africa
Across much of the African continent religious strife between Muslims and Christians is seemingly rife.
February 08, 2011 - CNN
CNN: Churches destroyed after blasphemy sentence handed down
Three Christian churches in Indonesia were destroyed by an angry mob during clashes with police Tuesday that erupted after a local court handed down a verdict against a Christian man accused of blasphemy against Islam, authorities said.
February 05, 2011 - The Courier-Journal
Courier-Journal: Two institutions, two views on homosexuality
When they were faced with challenges over homosexuality, two evangelical Christian institutions made opposite responses last week.
February 03, 2011 - CNN
CNN: Obama delivers major speech on personal faith
President Barack Obama gave an unusually personal speech about his religious faith on Thursday, saying that "it is the biblical injunction to serve the least of these that keeps me going and keeps me from being overwhelmed," in address to a prayer breakfast in Washington.
February 02, 2011 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Egypt's uprising stirs fears of persecution in minority Coptic Christians
With attacks on Christians already increasing in the Middle East, the populist uprising in Egypt has triggered fears among some that the region's largest non-Muslim population - Egypt's 7 million Coptic Christians - could be at risk.
January 18, 2011 - The Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News: Why do some religious affiliations produce more political leaders?
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which does superb work analyzing religious trends, looked at the religious affiliation of the new Congress that was sworn in on January 5th.
January 14, 2011 - The Columbus Dispatch
Columbus Dispatch: Shootings make guns a hot topic in churches
In modern America, three topics have been said to dominate discussions of our values: God, gays and guns.
January 11, 2011 - The Huffington Post
Huffington Post: Muslim-majority nations more likely to deny religious freedom
Few nations keep their vows when it comes to religious freedom.
January 07, 2011 - CNN
CNN: My take: U.S. is Christian nation, Congress data show
Years ago, a graduate student and I spent untold hours trying to track down the religious affiliations of various state and national politicians — all in an effort to see which religious groups had more political clout, and which had less.
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