Reproductive Control & Anti-Abortion

Florida campaign stop focuses on the culture wars and getting out the Christian vote.

A new front in the “religious freedom” wars.

Some conditions under which it might be pertinent that a woman be advised to have an abortion and be sterilized against her will.

Ultrasound is now used to treat the malady of not being as opposed to abortion as some people wish you’d be.

Birth control bans and religious liberty.

Sex, secularism, and Islamists.

Time magazine’s religion top ten list had Mormonism in the spotlight. The Religion Newswriters Association voted Osama bin Laden’s death (and the faith response to it) their number one story in a list that included Harold Camping, Rob Bell, and Mississippi ’ s Personhood initiative. Oh, and the top religion author of 2011? Tim Tebow, whose life story is a runaway bestseller for our friends at HarperOne. But what about the stories that shoulda been, but weren ’t ? We ’ re thinking this list, drawn up Peter Laarman, might provide a template for 2012 coverage. — The Eds.

We wouldn’t have wine, and Israel would be really different.

Film premieres tonight in Des Moines.

The All American Muslim advertising debacle.