Mike Lofgren argues that politicized religion is hurting the Republican Party. Over the weekend, Salon published an excerpt from Mike Lofgren 's new book, The Pa ...

How do we debate important issues when we don't share a common foundation of facts? NEW YORK — The view out my eighth-story apartment window rarely changes. Lights go off ...

The Republicans will cheer on a Mormon at the convention this month — but Romney doesn't play up his faith. For The Washington Post , former presidential speechwriter, ...

Souad Mekhennet writes for The New York Times on the growing hostility toward religious minorities as election season approaches in the United States. Souad Mekhennet writes f ...

In April, the Vatican accused the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the umbrella group that represents the majority of American nuns, of “doctrinal confusion.” As LCWR leaders meet this week (A ...

American Sikhs say they do know this: Their community has been targeted by a growing number of hate crimes since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The New York-based Sikh Coalition reports more than 700 such inciden ...

By tradition, the storied Al Smith Dinner has provided a few hours of comic relief from the angry volleys of the campaign trail. But this year's event is drawing criticism. N ...

Missourians will vote on Tuesday on a proposed amendment to the state constitution that supporters say would protect residents' right to pray in public. If a recent poll is any indication, it could pass b ...

August 2, 2012 Sojo in the News Chris Lisee ...

In fact, why aren’t there many chicken restaurants in neighborhoods like this? Why aren’t these wonderful shining examples of Christianity and life lining up to alleviate the suffering in these places? If we w ...

Eboo Patel on Millennials and the 2012 Presidential Election Eboo Patel on Millennials and the 2012 Presidential Election ...

A new poll shows that American Catholics tend to agree with their bishops’ concerns that religious liberties are at risk in the U.S. Nevertheless, Catholics seem to be warming to President Obama. ...

Though she is at the center of one of the biggest crises in the Catholic Church today, Sister Pat Farrell is loath to talk about herself, and certainly not in any way that would make her a focus of the looming ...

Richard Land, the man who became the public face of the Southern Baptist Convention on ethical and political issues for nearly 25 years, has announced plans to retire in 2013 after a rough-and-tumble spring. ...

Often discussions of birth control come back to the question of eugenics and attempt to suggest that Margaret Sanger and other early birth control advocates wanted to keep poor people and immigrants from hav ...

Today Wheaton College, a leading evangelical Christian school and the alma mater of the Rev. Billy Graham in Illinois, sought an injunction for "emergency relief," as it seeks to remain exempt from t ...

I sincerely fear that Billy has become a puppet for the political persuasions of Franklin Graham (and to a lesser extent, Anne Graham Lotz). All sides of this debate should at least stop and question why &quo ...

Jim Wallis Our call from God is to offer hope where nobody else does. I have been a Little League baseball co ...

August, 2012 Who Owns Democracy? Big money has corrupted our politics, and We the People want it fixed. What will it take to clean up the ...

Faye M. Anderson State voter-suppression measures go beyond ID laws. TODAY, THE RIGHT to vote is under assaul ...

Nick Penniman With political integrity drowning in big money, it's too late for small tweaks. The whole system needs a reboot. ...

Sen. John Marty If we want a democracy that represents the public interest, we'll need a system where politicians are no longer boug ...

It could get pretty crowded at Chick-fil-A this week — and not because of the fast-food restaurant's famous waffle fries.Supporters and opponents of gay marriage plan to appear at Chick-fil-A locations na ...

The Obama administration’s policy requiring most employers to provide free birth control coverage in their health insurance policies takes effect on Aug. 1 — a deadline that has sparked apocalyptic warnings fr ...

Michael Goldstein voted for Barack Obama in 2008 but now says he has buyer’s remorse. EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Michael Goldstein voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and supports gay marr ...

Writing for Q Ideas, John Morehead examines the 'credibility gap' that evangelcials are facing today. Writing for Q Ideas , John Morehead examines the 'c ...

hate crimes against the Islamic Society of Joplin’s mosque. Federal officials are offering $15 ...

In an unconventional move, a number of high-profile business executives have come out on the issue of gay marriage. In an unconventional move, a number of high-profile business ex ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim civil rights group that has frequently drawn fire from conservatives, has regained its tax-exempt status. The Council ...

Today, the State Department released its 2011 International Religious Freedom Report. Religious freedom means different things in different places. Right now, it’s difficult to vo ...

Writing for The Huffington Post, Eric Sapp takes a closer look at a recent Pew Forum poll. Writing for The Huffington Post , Eric Sapp takes a closer look at a recent ...

With political campaigning ramping up to its zenith (or nadir, depending upon your point of view) in the weeks and months ahead, the time is upon us to demand both integrity and flexibility from our elected of ...

For the second time in less than a year, the Gallup poll reports that a majority of Americans would vote for an atheist for president. For the second time in less than a year, the ...

Scotland has announced it will allow same-sex weddings as early as 2015, becoming the first country in the United Kingdom to do so. Scotland has announced it will allow same-sex w ...

1.5 million Greek Orthodox faithful in the United States and holds leadership and advisory positions ...

Though Mitt Romney talks little about his faith on the campaign trail, he grew up in the Mormon Church and spent years as a top church leader in Massachusetts. Lani Gerson left t ...

The influence of clergy in swaying their congregants' attitudes about moral issues like abortion and contraception access is dwindling, according to a new study. The influen ...

With an estimated 10,000 religious leaders worldwide now living openly with HIV, according to Ugandan pastor Gideon Byamugisha — the first African faith leader to publicly reveal his HIV-positive status — the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Episcopal Bishop Kee Sloan of Alabama voted in favor of his church's new ritual for blessing same-sex unions — but he won't allow priests in his diocese to perform it. ...

WASHINGTON — Bend the Arc, a liberal Jewish group that has advocated for social justice causes for more than 30 years, last week launched a lobbying arm and political action committee to give it more weight on ...

for decades. And after their 25-year-old son died of a brain tumor 15 years ago, Haegele said, the couple ...

WASHINGTON — Neither Mitt Romney’s trip to Israel Saturday nor President Obama’s Middle East policies will have much effect on Jewish voters this fall, according to a new report that says Jewish voting pattern ...

A new poll released today shows an overwhelming percentage of black and Hispanic voters favor Barack Obama over Mitt Romney in the upcoming presidential election — 87 percent and 58 percent, respectively. Both ...

A federal appeals court has upheld Georgia’s ban on bringing guns into places of worship. The Rev. Jonathan Wilkins, a Baptist pastor, and a gun-rights group had argued that church members should have the right to carry guns into worship serv ...

Thousands of people wearing red shirts gathered in downtown Columbia, Mo., July 21 to honor an Army solider killed recently in Afghanistan—and to fend off Westboro Baptist Church. ...

Although Gov. Bobby Jindal’s voucher plan passed last month without her support, State Rep. Valarie Hodges vowed to keep looking for alternative ways to “support funding for teaching the fundamentals of Americ ...

ThinkProgress reports on Mayor Bloomberg's comments on the subject of gun control. ThinkProgress reports on Mayor Bloomberg's comments on the subject of gun cont ...

Underlying the question of funding is a fundamental distinction that too few Americans fail to recognize. Our society must begin to recognize that being "anti-gay marriage" is not the same as being & ...

Wheaton College, Billy Graham’s alma mater and a top evangelical school, joined Catholic groups in a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s contraception mandate even as a federal judge’s ruling clouded pr ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Accusations by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., that an Islamist group has infiltrated the U.S. government are drawing fierce criticism from fellow lawmakers and religious groups. ...