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I didn’t know the Christian values I purported to uphold! (And then promptly resigns.)

Anti-Obama propagandist the latest right-winger to denounce secular morality while taking advantage of the freedoms of a secular society.

Peter Singer: if your religious beliefs don’t permit it, don’t do it.

Obama’s economic framing throws him off religious freedom track.

The biggest misconception about the crusades is the belief that everyone understood them as religious wars between Christianity and Islam. Latin Christians understood it in that fashion, but for Greek Christians, the crusaders were essentially mercenaries employed against a rival empire. Both the Sunni Turks and the Shi‘i Egyptians probably understood the crusades in similar terms. It would take the Muslims several decades to learn to think of the battles against the Franks as religious wars rather than as conflicts over the control of frontier settlements.

How the religious right wants you to spend Halloween.

Just about all of the issues that we religious folk insist we really care about—issues like world poverty and hunger, resource wars and environmental degradation, human trafficking, widening domestic inequality, shrinking access to quality higher education, declining on-time graduation rates for low-income students and students of color, urban neighborhood blight, stress-related health problems, declining family life and domestic violence—are directly related to systemic debt oppression.

Is this what Harry Reid was taunting Mitt Romney about?

Lone wolf or culture of Islamophobia?

Yes, there are Mormon Democrats.