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Former evangelicals now strive to shed possessions.

Forget the Mormons. Forget Pentecostalism. Hell, forget the Rastafarians. The most fascinating subgroup on the religious landscape at the moment is… soccer fanatics. Catholics are upset about a recent Hyundi commercial…

The notorious Alliance Defense Fund, which seeks to abrogate the establishment clause of the First Amendment, has recruited an evangelical minister to endorse a candidate for governor from the pulpit in hopes of taking his case all the way to the Supreme Court. Such advocacy, of course, violates the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits any 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization from making political endorsements.

President Obama has nominated the Rev. Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook to be Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom. But her resumé, with no discernible international policy experience, her close ties to the former Clinton administration, and several ill-defined business ventures, suggest that President Obama cares little about supporting religious freedom around the world.

Tea Party upset or Mormon tradition?

Every time you turn on your gas-guzzling Suburban Assault Vehicle, a baby pelican dies.

American evangelist supports “restraint” and “punishment” of homosexuality.

The week in religion, poetically.

The services I attended at Philadelphia’s Congregation Temple Bethel were loud and joyous, but I felt totally out of place. That was a familiar feeling, of course. My two Jewish parents raised me without any religious education. (My father, a butcher, takes an almost perverse delight in flouting his non-belief with gestures like giving me lard as a Christmas present.) But I was more at ease this morning, because it was not expected that I understand the rituals because I look like a Jew. I was one of the only white people in shul that morning, and it was nice to look as out of place as I usually feel.