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Why are conservative churches thriving in the “spiritual wasteland” of the Pacific Northwest, while liberal churches struggle? Author James Wellman explains what’s going on in the region, and how this plays out across the United States.

Amid both controversy and support, women are playing a larger role in religion in Muslim countries all over the world.

Bishops accuse longtime advocacy group ACORN of political partisanship and withdraw support. Now who’s partisan?

The thwarted VP nominee is not going quietly. Indeed, she seems to believe in her own sense of personal destiny and mission.

Misdirected finger-pointing and flat-footed social analysis has accompanied purposeful protests and mass social action in the response to the passage of Prop 8.

A priest in South Carolina tells parishioners to skip communion if they voted for Obama.

Opponents of gay marriage accuse protesters of trying to intimidate the courts by voicing their opinions as a group. But since when is dissent “mob rule”?

The President-Elect’s names, all three of them, reveal a complexity of religious engagement that might move us beyond a tribal sense of religion.

The Mormon church may be first in line to deny gay people the right to marry, but Catholic bishops are hurrying to join them.