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Politics at this level is a blood sport, not a seminar, and the president seems a bit behind on his combat training.

A surgeon explains how traditional Navajo healing modalities can inform medical practice.

By slipping into religious language, and evoking “conscience clause” exemptions, it’s becoming clear that this underground movement is readying itself for the mainstream.

Now is not the time to hedge bets. The Obama administration ought to be pressing its advantages and racking up some victories.

Hospital chaplains provide spiritual care to the sick and dying, and they tend to both patients and their families. While their voices are not often heard in the larger conversation about religion and medicine, this is slowly changing.

Top Ten Religious Right groups rake in more than half-a-billion dollars; Churches v. Christian Zionism; Bush turns to faith-based groups to bail US out of health care crisis; Saving the GOP from itself?

Tom Daschle, a pro-choice and pro-stem cell Catholic, will serve as Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Though attacked in the past, he has a history of keeping church and state separate.

A good reason to leave some daylight in the Church/State wall…

The Religious Right attacks Obama’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services as a “pro-life nightmare.”