and a major boon for America's Catholic bishops, the influential Catholic Health Association on June 15 ... the influential Catholic Health Association on June 15 rejected White House proposals aimed at easing faith-based ... for America's Catholic bishops, the influential Catholic Health Association on June 15 rejected White House ...

The Left is putting all its political capital into convincing Republicans to allow 98 percent of the Bush tax cuts to be extended, while arguing that people who make nearly 10 times as much as the average Amer ...

NPR reports that Michigan state representative Lisa Brown was not allowed speak on other legislation yesterday after she made a speech against a bill restricting abortion in which she used the word "vagin ...

How much money does the U.S. government forgo by not taxing religious institutions? According to a University of Tampa professor, perhaps as much as $71 billion a year. How much m ...

Florida’s governor instituted a law requiring that new voter registration papers had to be turned in within 48 hours of them being written. The reason, they say, is to cut down on the amount of voter registrat ...

Paul Froese offers some interesting insights for  Religion & Politics : Perhaps it is the fervent individualism of American Christianity which makes free market capitalism seem like a Divine mandate. Because evangelicals assert that y ...

existence, that’s a 15-point drop in just five years.   In 2007, 83% of American millennials said ...

I struggle to know how much is enough. I hear about Joseph Kony and the many children he’s exploited as child soldiers. I get angry, discouraged. I write about it, talk to friends about it. And then my life ke ...

Twenty years ago, who would have predicted the 2012 U.S. presidential race would pit a black incumbent against a white Mormon? SALT LAKE CITY — Twenty years ago, who would have p ...

What's surprising in 2012 is the relative lack of anxiety among evangelicals who for years considered Mormonism a "cult" that was to be feared, not embraced. Now th ...

Richard Florida examines how geography impacts abortion in the United States Richard Florida examines how geography impacts abortion in the United States, and what it tells us ...

David Barton is known for his “out there” claims, but his most recent is a keeper. Those who wish the see the wall of separation between church and state burned down have a rather ...

Hundreds gathered on Capitol Hill and at rallies across the nation on June 8 in a double-barreled attack on President Obama's health care law and a mandate to require employers to provide insurance covera ...

As a woman I am grateful for the fact that in 1969 someone thought it might be a good idea to at least symbolically say, “Yeah, man, we’re cool with the ladies voting. We can groove with that.” But the current ...

Author Jonathan Merritt sets our the seven reasons why Christians should "change their political tune": Aristotle is credited with saying, "Change in all things is sweet." And perhaps no change of late is as sweet as that am ...

Writing for The Daily Beast ,  Barbie Latza Nadeau and Jesse Ellison examine the rift between nuns across the world: In the U.S., where the number of religious sisters has dwindled from 179,954 to 57,544 in the past half century, ...

of the "Toast to Freedom" artists will perform the song live. Suu Kyi, 66, who spent more than 15 years ...

babies. Puritan minister Cotton Mather (who himself saw eight of his 15 children die before reaching ...

Honor guards are prohibited from participating in religious rituals except as requested by families. Problems arose in Houston when the cemetery director misinterpreted this law to prohibit all religious speec ...

Are conservatives more religious and liberals more spiritual? Matthew Hutson asks an interesting question in an article for The Huffington Post - Are Conservatives Mor ...

Conservative Christians are starting to line up behind Mormon Mitt Romney. But not without hesitation. Writing for The Washington Post 's On Faith blog, David Mason ...

of Representatives, women were given the right to vote. And after the 15th and19th amendment passed, voting rights ...

Conservatives often resort to name-calling in the absence of debate, but liberals ignore whole categories of discussion. Like patriotism and religion. Well, it's time we got over that. ...

Religious leaders do believe that massive deficits are moral issues, and that we must not saddle future generations with crippling debt. But we believe that how we resolve deficits also is a moral issue. And o ...

The threats to the poor and the central city are just as real this morning as they were yesterday. The cry of the oppressed still rings out in Milwaukee and Racine, Green Bay and Madison. This is not a moment ...

Scott Walker has survived. Hallelujah anyhow. I say and say again: there are two responses to anything that happens in life—hallelujah and hallelujah anyhow. Those of us who suppo ...

Would America be better off with an agnostic president? Keli Goff asks is America would be better off with an agnostic President: "It's always refreshing when r ...

A group of Catholic monks who sued for the right to sell handmade caskets will head back to court this week, fending off an appeal from the state funeral industry after a federal judge last year struck down a ...

Pope Benedict XVI is set to visit Philadelphia in 2015 for the Vatican World Meeting of Families. Pope Benedict XVI is set to visit Philadelphia in 2015 for the Vatican World Mee ...

Is capitalism compatible with Christian values? A fascinating opinion piece by Thomas Edsall on The New York Times' Campaigns Stops blog: Is capitalism compa ...

A treat from Andrew Sullivan's The Dish as he interviews E.J. Dionne on his latest book, Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent :    Watch the full interview and ...

WASHINGTON — The 200 or so African-American pastors gathered here for the Conference of National Black Churches feel strongly about the topic of gay marriage, some for, many against. But there's one thing ...

Land, the influential head of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and the denomination’s top policy spokesman, was rebuked for racial insensitivity and for not attr ...

Technology can greatly enhance religious practice. Writing for  The Washington Post ,  Lisa Miller  says yes: "Technology can greatly enhance religious practice. ...

The Kansas legislature has irrationally concluded that Sharia law somehow threatens the state’s well-being and decisive action was needed. Recently, the Kansas’ legislature and go ...

E.J. Dionne Jr. The Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case didn't actually make corporations into people, but it ...

Social conservatives on Thursday reacted sharply to a federal appeals court ruling that declared the law barring federal recognition of same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Social ...

In the wake of President Obama's declaration of his personal support for the right of same-sex couples to marry under civil law, the nation is understandably focused on debating the merits of this positio ...

In the decade since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, animosity toward Muslims sometimes has taken the form of opposition to construction of mosques and other Islamic facilities CHICAGO ...

Appeals court rules DOMA unconstitutional. As reported by  Reuters  today: A federal appeals court on Thursday found a law that denies federal benefits to married same- ...

Christianity Today  reports: 17 Coptic evangelical leaders met with five Muslim Brotherhood counterparts at the Brotherhood's headquarters on February 28, and crafted a joint statement of common values that both sides agree the new Egyp ...

A fascinating visual from the wonderful blog ‘I Love Charts’ caught some attention on the inter-webs yesterday, highlighting a little known fact from the statute books of some of the nation’s states. ...

Attorney General Eric Holder and other legal experts strategized with black religious leaders May 30 about new restrictive state voting laws that could affect their congregants by reducing early voting and req ...

Mitt Romney clinched the GOP presidential nomination on May 28, becoming the first Mormon selected by a major political party. But will his barrier-breaking faith be a boon or bane to his White House campaign? ...

Richard Land's future is in doubt amid an investigation over his remarks about the Trayvon Martin shooting and for alleged plagiarism. NASHVILLE — For the past 24 years, Ric ...

Judge rules to halt construction on a Tennessee mosque. CNN  reports: The long-running battle between a Tennessee Muslim community and its critics over a new mosque to ...

Egyptian Christians navigate the political options. For  Christianity Today ,  Jayson Casper  writes: Since the revolution began in January 2011, Egyptian Christians ...

Muslim civil rights groups are calling a new Kansas law that bans Shariah in state courtrooms an expression of Islamophobia that is vulnerable to a legal challenge. Muslim civil ...

Some believe Charles Worley did more than just smear the image of the Christian faith and denigrate an entire cross-section of the population; some suggest he actually broke the law from the pulpit. ...

Take Part on Tuesday has created to great infographic that shows who actually votes in America. Some of the highlights: Married people are more likely to vote than widowers, divorcees or those who have never been married. The higher t ...