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It’s difficult to escape the sense that something is still missing from press coverage of Romney’s Mormonism.

Top 8 RD stories on religion and the use and abuse of history in U.S. political life.

Behold the woeful ignorance of GOP strategists.

[crickets] Hello? Guys? [crickets]

Can religious activists influence religious voters?

Note the disconnect between religion, money, and politics.

Must-read Businessweek article studies Mormon profits.

Religionists can quickly rattle off myriad global, historical sites of contested holy space. But there is still something deeply nauseating, unhomed, un-everything, about attacks on vulnerable human beings at prayer, or about to pray. We want to believe in religious spaces as safe dwellings, as sanctuaries in the most literal sense of the word—but they have also long been targets for Americans who fear change.

After Baptist bookstore chain LifeWay refused to stock evangelical darling The Blind Side, some Christian authors are challenging what one calls the store’s “stranglehold” on Christian books. Is this the end of retailers’ control over industry standards?

Romney promises heart but delivers fighting words and a warmed-over stump speech.