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Taseer’s assassin shot him multiple times at point blank range in a public market and then waited to be detained, allegedly expressing pride in his actions to the media that quickly surrounded him. It is the issue of blasphemy and the symbolic nature of a much-publicized case involving Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of maligning the Prophet Muhammad, that brought Taseer so centrally into the public eye in recent weeks.

World Net Daily hit piece on conservative Muslim activist is a “temper tantrum” by Gaffney.

After elected officials refused to defend the law on appeal, court of appeals questions whether proponents of ballot measure have standing to defend it in court.

Philosopher of Religion Keith Parsons hung up his hat a few months ago, after announcing that he believed the “case for theism” to be a fraud: “Theistic philosophers and apologists are almost painfully earnest and honest… I just cannot take their arguments seriously anymore.” It’s rare for a philosopher to renounce his or her own specialty—but Parsons’ rejection speaks to a broader dilemma.

What will be creationists’ new strategies of denial?

Among investigations to expect from the Republican Congress, expect a misinformed demonization of shari’ah law.

Bachmann expresses interest in running, promising crowded field of God talkers.

Did Big Apple conservatives reject Beck’s prophetic turn?

I just finished leading a burial service for a man I didn’t know and a family I’d likely never see again. The son of the deceased, a grandfather himself, scanned the nearby graves and pointed to an inscription for a 23-year-old woman who died in 1931. “My aunt passed before I was born. She had an illegal abortion,” he said as if our unfamiliarity gave him permission to unearth a family secret.

Judge rules that teachers’ constitutional rights weren’t violated by school district’s attempt to force apology to Christian student.