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In his address to graduates, Obama urged “common ground” on abortion. The Rev. Dr. Carlton Veazey argues that if you accept that women are full persons in the eyes of God and the law, then you cannot stop working for women’s control over childbearing.

Looking to LDS General Conference this weekend for compassion and leadership.

Structured around a family (mother, father, three children) which suffers a terrible loss, The Tree of Life is an extended midrash, or commentary, on the Book of Job, a verse of which forms the epigraph to the film and which is sermonized upon during an extended scene at a church. At once essentially Catholic and doggedly scientific in its worldview, its central family becomes an archetype, undergoing processes of childlike wonderment, Oedipal lust and rage, the loss of innocence, the loss of faith, and finally, it seems, redemption.

A new report identifies three areas where women’s empowerment and religion are linked: activism, scholarship, and popular culture.

New studies show that marriage is a good thing. For everyone. So all those arguments that same-sex marriage will weaken the institution? Not true.

Religious groups used scare tactics, and a lot of money, to sway the vote on Prop. 8—so why are some of their leaders being welcomed at the “progressive” table?

In this podcast Rabbi David Saperstein talks about the connections between holiness and social justice, healing the world, and authentic religion.

Parting Ways is Butler’s attempt to construct a Jewish narrative that coheres with her philosophical and political sensibilities as well as her allegiance to her Jewish heritage and lineage. As a Jew for whom religious practice and the Jewish textual tradition do not constitute her Jewish core, hers is a secular narrative of Jewishness outside the orbit of Zionism. Butler’s concern for Israel is that she believes its present construction is “Jewishly” indefensible (in the terms she develops in her book) and the muscularity with which Zionism is proffered squashes any alternative narrative of diasporic Jewish identity.

Leaders of the religious right have recently begun to complain about the various names by which their movement is known. But if the shoe fits…

Now is not the time to hedge bets. The Obama administration ought to be pressing its advantages and racking up some victories.