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A new survey reveals not only that church attenders and youth have swung back into Obama’s camp, but that he’s perceived as “friendlier” toward religion than McCain.

…as do Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. Upon viewing Bill Maher’s Religulous the author asks: Why are the so-called New Atheists using the archaic and theologically conservative definition of religion pushed by home-schoolers?

Jackie Mason shticks and all, a new comedy concert documentary, Allah Made Me Funny, reminds us that it’s not all doom and gloom.

McCain’s campaign theme of intolerance is being met by Obama’s support for the values of tolerance and empathy. For the first time since the Civil Rights Movement there’s a clear battle of morality-based worldviews.

Religious Right hammers Obama on abortion; 3 states, 3 anti-abortion initiatives; An Obama Supreme Court through the eyes of a conservative activist; Early marketing of the War on Christmas.

Whether prom signals triumph or terror, it’s a powerful rite of passage, endowed with an unmistakable aura of the sacred—if you know where to look.

The impulse to minister to the homosexual community of L.A. led to a new kind of Christian church—the MCC—committed to inclusivity and undoing the old divisions incised across Christian history.

Listening to Palin and Biden, one is reminded that American support for Israel borders on obsessive. The biblical story of the golden calf reminds us that obsession does not usually produce good gods—or good policy.

Connecticut legalizes gay marriage; Religious voters favor Obama; Blame the Jews for Wall Street; Gay marriage ‘worse than radical Islam,’; McCain to Gays: Thanks, but no thanks.

What does it mean when someone like Sarah Palin uses religious rhetoric to talk about American foreign policy? Is she just provincial, or is she signaling a complete disregard for the principles of liberal democracy?