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The Qur’an-burning Terry Jones is back to put the text on trial. Maybe he’s just a comedian in disguise.

Former adjunct professor tells all.

After the Tucson shootings, a prayer for Jared Loughner.

The arrest of a woman for praying at the Western Wall was a lost opportunity in last night’s debate.

The Obama administration’s religion trap.

Planets! Tablets! Underwear! When some of America’s most celebrated pundits and public intellectuals talk about Mormons, these are the images that are summoned. Ironically in this “Mormon Moment”—signaled by a hit Broadway musical, polygamous housewives on TLC, and of course two Mormon presidential candidates—Mormons, long considered quintessential “outsiders” to mainstream American culture, today find themselves at the center of the American zeitgeist. Yet it is the Mormons’ supposed theological weirdness that is the centripetal attraction.

At emergency summit, interfaith leaders condemn climate of “derision, misinformation and outright bigotry.”

Stories are dangerous. They have the ability to re-make the world. The Harry Potter Alliance was founded to create a Dumbledore’s army of Harry Potter fans that work for justice in the real world.

Lost in a stew of bigotry.

Connecting the Mormon story to the American story is work yet to be done.