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Radio host says the First Amendment doesn’t apply to Muslims.

Three presidential hopefuls pander to Christian Reconstructionist view of education.

Talk host goes off the rails, and it’s not the first time.

Today, on the eve of the 31st anniversary of Oscar Romero’s assassination, President Barack Obama visited the Archbishop’s tomb. Romero was of one of the most beloved, misunderstood, and critiqued figures in the modern Latin American Catholic Church, and Obama’s visit has sparked some surprise and controversy—especially given Romero’s public critiques of the US government in the final years of his life and his association with Latin American liberation theology.

Is she snubbing Jewish Republicans?

Beyond a growing distaste for the rancor around hot-button issues like human sexuality, gender equity, and reproductive choice, people seem to be put off church because they are able to do the kind of work—tending the sick, advocating for the oppressed, caring for the earth, comforting those in trouble or need—that was long the stock in trade of local churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples, but which, through the modern corporatizing of mainstream religions, was largely outsourced to separate agencies. This is why you’ll probably find more people volunteering in any given week at Martha’s Kitchen food pantry in downtown San Jose, California than at Sunday services at the church across the street. If Facebook is killing the church, that is, it’s probably more accurate to call it an assisted suicide.

Egypt is conservative, not Islamist.

Screen legend was a pioneer in the support of AIDS research.

Almost a year to wait until the matter is taken up again by state courts.

Did the alleged killer draw any imaginary encouragement from his newfound Mormon context?