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The folks most likely to be alienated by Daniel’s book are, unsurprisingly, the seekers—those who call themselves SBNR, of course, but also those who want religious community, or at least want to want it. For these folks, who may be, as she says, “shopping” for a place to belong, Daniel has absolutely no patience.

So the FJP says to the FEP: hey, you’ve insulted Islam.

That nobody wanted bin Laden’s body provides hope that we may finally distinguish between what he and his followers did with what Islam teaches.

It is with a bit of sadness that I write this…

If they can’t shari’ah “there,” how can they get it here?

If bloodthirsty undead zombie action isn’t usually your thing, you might be temped to pass on Stake Land. But like Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and Let the Right One In, the brilliant reworking of vampire tropes by Swedish novelist-screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist, Stake Land upends many of the expectations moviegoers are likely to bring to a genre film. It also makes grimly imaginative and occasionally audacious use of some of the religious and political themes threading through contemporary American culture.

Like the right-to-life movement, the right-to-death movement has been burdened by a contemporary and historical religiosity.

Faith and Freedom Coalition meets this weekend in D.C., and yes, it’s about religion.

A new report details the egregious civil rights violations and damage to communities from the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim communities post-9/11.

Ralph Reed is doing a kind of constitutional drag performance for the press, dressing his religious values in secular sequins and pearls, but we all know what’s beneath the costume, right?