Ann Neumann: Speaking of Talk to Action: two of their writers, Chip Berlet andFredrick Clarkson, have posts up at Religion Dispatches. Clarkson...

Ann Neumann: Bruce Wilson at Talk to Action: In the Philippines ITN teams [International Transformation Network] are indoctrinating, by government...

Joel and Victoria Osteen, wealthy leaders of the largest church in the U.S., have succeeded because they trusted that...

Ann Neumann: Don’t miss Sarah Posner’s post on religion and the Supreme Court justices, an issue that comes to the fore...

Sojourners has just published a Covenant for Civility that seeks to “offer a message of hope and reconciliation to a nation...

Ann Neumann: Bishop of the Church of Big Business, Steve Forbes, just emailed me to ask that I tithe my...

Let’s say your congregation forsakes it’s denomination for another. Who owns the building you meet in every week? On...

In a country that’s 90% Catholic but has a tradition of rigid church-state separation, the legalization of abortion and...

The C Street discount dweller Representative Jerry Moran (R-KS) is firing back at those who charge he was illegally...

Elissa Lerner: Since when do we authorize killing American citizens? The Obama Administration has approved a targeted killing, of radical...

Ann Neumann: At WaPo‘s On Faith blog, a bit of helpful background on President Obama’s meeting yesterday with 20 black religious...

Ann Neumann: Yesterday the Vatican announced that Mexican-born Archbishop Jose Gomez of San Antonio will succeed Roger M. Mahoney as Cardinal...

Ann Neumann: A change to the Florida constitution — which has just passed committee and will be voted on...

Ann Neumann: The British media had been impatiently waiting for Anglican Rowan Williams, the notoriously outspoken Archbishop of Canterbury,...

Elissa Lerner: The BBC offered a cursory introduction to the Yazidis and the Mandaeans, two ancient minority religions that sprung from the...

Ann Neumann: “Nationalist, socially conservative, suspicious of markets, critical of Islam, authoritarian.” Sarah Posner points us to a new Guardian article by Andrew...

Back in January Watertown Daily News “broke” the story that the Amish would be exempt from the health care mandate should...

Ann Neumann: Tired of being a persecuted Christian? Rowan Williams’ got your back!The Archbishop of Canterbury spoke during his Easter...

Elissa Lerner: While the Catholic Church is still up to its eyeballs in its latest sex abuse scandals (most recently, an...

Elissa Lerner: Even Dan Brown missed these clues. A recent study conducted by a Cornell professor and his Presbyterian minister brother of...

Seeing myself well lost once more, I sighed, 'Where, where in Heaven am I? But don't tell me! O...

It's an old light, and there's not much of it. But it's enough to see by.~~MARGARET ATWOOD, Cat's Eye

For true and false will in no better way be revealed and uncovered than in resistance to a contradiction.~~ST....

For everything hidden must be revealed, each secret longs to be disclosed, each love yearns to be betrayed, everything...