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While sanctimonious conservatives and godless liberals alike await the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Hobby Lobby case, two more suits with serious church and state implications are quietly making…

My heart skipped a beat when I spotted Vincent Harding’s obituary in the New York Times. I only met Harding a couple of times (although I felt that I’d “met” him long before through his powerful…

Stay calm, people. Mormons excel at emergency preparedness.

Religiously-based efforts to prevent girls from getting an education, like the kidnapping of Nigerian school girls by Boko Haram, have resulted in murder and attempted murder (the Malala case), as…

Discussing her memoir, The Book of Mormon Girl.

With Egypt’s presidential election a few weeks away, former Field Marshal Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi seems all but unstoppable. In an interview with Egyptian television this week, the career military chief…

Progressive groups have already voiced their opposition to Georgia state judge Michael Boggs, nominated by President Obama to the federal bench, for his opposition to abortion rights and a vote, while…

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State will announce tomorrow that it is launching “Operation Inclusion,” following efforts by some local government officials to interpret last week’s…

Garry Wills gets our vote for quote of the week.

A professor, a rabbi and two comedians discuss religion and politics.