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The President-Elect’s names, all three of them, reveal a complexity of religious engagement that might move us beyond a tribal sense of religion.

The Mormon church may be first in line to deny gay people the right to marry, but Catholic bishops are hurrying to join them.

There are plenty of reasons for concern over Obama’s appointment of Rahm Emanuel, but guilt by association is a downward spiral.

The loss on Prop 8 is like a death for gay and lesbian people, who have witnessed their civil rights murdered at the polls—the grieving is just beginning.

Though the majority of Catholics reside in Latin America and Africa, the majority of Cardinals (the Pope pool) are European. Still, many are looking ahead to the first Pope of color.

Is “an eye for an eye” the best that imams and scholars can prescribe for domestic violence in the Muslim community?

The First Amendment bars Congress from making laws that abridge freedom of speech—but it does not guarantee immunity to haters. An important distinction.

Many US Catholics defied bishops and voted for Obama, but this has only invigorated the Catholic Right.

For a people who bear the burden of slavery, legalized apartheid and the continued vestiges of both, for a moment the elusive goal of feeling fully part of America’s democratic project was realized.