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 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 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 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.
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.
January 02, 2011
- The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Hopes for gay-rights gains shift to courts
Gay-rights activists, acknowledging they will lose momentum for their agenda in Congress when Republicans assume control of the House this week, are pinning their hopes for further gains in 2011 on a series of incremental measures and a host of federal court cases.