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Religionists can quickly rattle off myriad global, historical sites of contested holy space. But there is still something deeply nauseating, unhomed, un-everything, about attacks on vulnerable human beings at prayer, or about to pray. We want to believe in religious spaces as safe dwellings, as sanctuaries in the most literal sense of the word—but they have also long been targets for Americans who fear change.

After Baptist bookstore chain LifeWay refused to stock evangelical darling The Blind Side, some Christian authors are challenging what one calls the store’s “stranglehold” on Christian books. Is this the end of retailers’ control over industry standards?

Romney promises heart but delivers fighting words and a warmed-over stump speech.

AlterNet examines Reed’s growing and lucrative political operation.

If you can’t at least stiffly sway to the Hammond B3 organ there is truly no hope for you.

Neo-con, pragmatist, exceptionalist… but not a visionary.

Keeping it all in perspective as the presidential race gets hotter.

Republicans lean libertarian on gay rights, but leaders still pander to religious right.

It’ll be a long four months if those returns don’t emerge soon.

At their NAACP speeches Biden got it, Romney did not.