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Meet the latest “witnesses” on Capitol Hill.

A Big Mo-Publican Primary update.

Religious historian Jennifer Graber discusses her examination of Protestant prison reformers, in which she upsets common assumptions about evangelicals, and our images of kind-hearted Quakers and bloodthirsty Calvinists.

As largely secular protests to “Occupy Wall Street” advance in fits and starts, capitalism and church negotiate to bring the best of both to bear on the world’s most intractable problems. Except, not quite.

Leadership team announced for Florida Republican Party straw poll this week.

Two leading scholars plead for Christian Zionists “to find a better way” to “love Israel.”

Speech will be out of “pro-Israel,” Christian Zionist playbook.

A “brain expert” questions the televangelist’s mental health.

It would be wrong to think that it is only Texas Governor Rick Perry’s boasting over his state’s punitive body count in a recent Republican debate that has put the death penalty back in the news (Texas led the nation with 167 executions from 1976-1998 and still leads with an incredible 234 since Perry became governor in 2000). Not at all. It is only our collective racial amnesia and apparent moral callousness where death is concerned that can make it seem this way.