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The Republican Jewish Committee’s push for the Jewish vote.

Jerry Falwell Jr. gushes over “visionary” Trump.

As bishops heat up rhetoric, are Catholics even listening?

But Mormons aren’t the only ones calling the faithful to prayer.

The home stretch brings out the anti-Mormon propagandists. Who can’t spell.

Catholic Governor dissents from hierarchy while pro- and con- campaigns compete for religious support.

Does Romney’s disdain for the 47% extend to young Mormons, who, urged to begin family life as early as possible, must often rely on government programs?

What is it about rage that pervades so much thinking about Islam? Start by picking up the latest issues of Time and Newsweek—America’s airport reading—and talking to Google.

At the Creation Museum in Kentucky, a place that promotes the idea that all of these layers of rock got created at once through Noah’s Flood—and yet right under their feet is this beautifully vetted stretch of limestone, it’s really too finely laminated and too extensive to possibly be explained by something like that. So you look at these things and you have to ask, what do you make of the world? Can the world tell its own story?

The questions that will stir again among my graduate students, and I suspect among many churchgoers generally, will likely not have much to do with the authenticity of the fragment and what it may or may not, in itself, say about the marital status of Jesus or the leadership status of women. Rather, they will be asking again to what exactly—if the Church continues to disregard the evidence of history and the voices of the faithful in engaging the world as it is and as it can be—are its current leaders listening?